California Avenue & Mayfield
California Avenue was the heart of Mayfield, a stage-stop town older than Palo Alto itself. It joined Palo Alto in 1925, keeping its own station and its own small downtown.
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Mayfield grew around Uncle Jim’s Cabin, a stagecoach stop and saloon near today’s El Camino Real and California Avenue, and took its name from Mayfield Farm, bought by Elisha Crosby in 1853. (Wikipedia)
Trains from San Francisco reached Mayfield in October 1863, at the station now called California Avenue. The town’s cross streets were named for Civil War heroes, and California Avenue was first Lincoln Street. (Wikipedia)
Palo Alto voters approved annexing Mayfield on July 2, 1925, and the towns were joined on July 6; the Mayfield News wrote its own obituary. (Wikipedia)
A farmers’ market fills California Avenue at El Camino Real every Sunday, year round, and nearby College Terrace, once part of Mayfield, has cross streets named for East Coast colleges. (Urban Village Farmers’ Markets, Wikipedia)
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