City of Morgan Hill Top to bottom: El Toro, Historic Morgan Hill Stratford School, view of downtown (L), Vowtaw Building (R), Anderson Lake.
Top to bottom: El Toro, Historic Morgan Hill Stratford School, view of downtown (L), Vowtaw Building (R), Anderson Lake.
Morgan Hill is positioned in the US Morgan Hill - Morgan Hill Morgan Hill is a town/city in Santa Clara County, California, at the southern tip of Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Morgan Hill is primarily an upscale residentiary improve for Silicon Valley, as well as the seat for a several high tech companies, including Anritsu, Flextronics, Velodyne Li - DAR, and Ten - Cate Advanced Composites.
Morgan Hill is a prominent dining, entertainment, and recreational destination in Silicon Valley, owing to its Michelin star chefs, luxury hospitality, nature parks, and wineries. Morgan Hill is among the most expensive places to live in inside the United States, due to its concentration of richness and its part as a prominent residentiary region for Silicon Valley. Morgan Hill, a Missouri entrepreneur, and Diana Murphy, a Californio heiress, established Morgan Hill.
In the region of what is now Morgan Hill, the Matalan tribe lived in a hunter-gatherer society. Before the region was colonized as part of the Alta California province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the 1772 Spanish expedition, led by Pedro Fages and Father Juan Crespi, camped in what is now Morgan Hill, alongside Llagas Creek.
With the beginning of Mission Santa Clara de Asis, in 1777, the lands of present-day Morgan Hill were granted to the Roman Catholic Church. Following Mexico's independence from Spain, territory was redistributed to Mexican people athwart California and the territory encompassing modern-day Morgan Hill was granted to Juan Maria Hernandez, in 1835. In 1845, Martin Murphy, Sr., an Irish-born American pioneer, acquired the region and titled it Rancho Ojo del Agua de la Coche. By 1870, the Murphy family had acquired around 70,000 acres (28,000 ha) of the Morgan Hill area. In the history of Morgan Hill, the Murphy, Dunne, and Hill families are of the most prominent significance.
In 1882, Daniel and Maria Murphy's favorite daughter, Diana Murphy, fell in love with Missouri businessman Hiram Morgan Hill.
When Daniel Murphy died, Diana and Hiram Morgan Hill inherited the 4,500 acres (1,800 ha) encircling the initial Murphy estate, near Murphy's Peak (now known as El Toro).
However, the move was temporary, as scandal caused by the marital complications of Hiram Morgan Hill's prominent socialite sister, Sarah Althea Hill, and her husband, Senator William Sharon, made the Hills a origin of civil ridicule, thus causing them to start spending the majority of their time between San Francisco and Washington, D.C., thus leaving their Ojo del Agua estate untouched for long periods of time. Students saluting the flag; Morgan Hill Elementary School, c.
By 1898, a momentous improve had assembled around what was then known as Morgan Hill's Ranch, and a Southern Pacific Railroad station was assembled in the Huntington area.
Rather than ask to stop at Huntington station, passengers would ask to stop at "Morgan Hill's Ranch", which eventually shortened to "Morgan Hill". Hiram Morgan and Diana Hill's only child, Diana Murphy Hill, married the French nobleman, Baron Hadouin de Reinach-Werth, and thus Baron Hadouin started to help manage Hiram Morgan Hill's properties between California and Nevada.
Diana Murphy Hill later remarried, in 1916, to Sir George Rhodes, thus causing the Murphy heiress of the Morgan Hill estate to relocate to the United Kingdom, taking her and Hiram Morgan Hill's daughter, Diana Murphy Hill, thus finally selling off the Villa Mira Monte and ending the Hill family existence in the improve titled after them. Morgan Hill is approximately 39 km (24 mi) south of downtown San Jose, 21 km (13 mi) north of Gilroy, and 24 km (15 mi) inland from the Pacific coast.
At the valley floor, Morgan Hill lies at an altitude of about 107 m (350 ft) above MSL.
Although there are no natural lakes or ponds inside the town/city limits, there are a several flood-control and water storage reservoirs in the adjoining hills which are directed by the Santa Clara Valley Water District, with recreational activities such as boating, etc., administered by the Santa Clara County Department of Parks and Recreation. Morgan Hill and El Toro, in the southern Santa Clara Valley.
Morgan Hill is positioned inside the seismically active San Francisco Bay region.
The Coyote Creek Fault is positioned in Morgan Hill and is classified as potentially active as well.
Morgan Hill is one of very several sources for a type of semi-precious gemstone marketed under the name "Morgan Hill poppy jasper". According to geologists, this small-town range of orbicular jasper formed through a combination of volcanic and seismic activeness on the slopes of El Toro.
A small-town business, El Toro Brewing Company, has a compilation of poppy jasper on display at their non-urban Morgan Hill brewery and on a large bar top inlaid with the contemporary at their brewpub in downtown Morgan Hill.
Examples are also on display at the Morgan Hill Museum and at the Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center. The small-town Poppy Jasper Film Festival is also titled after the mineral. Visitors, not aware of the origin of the town's name, often mistakenly assume that El Toro is "Morgan" Hill.
Substantial expansion of the populace of Morgan Hill occurred from the late 1980s forward .
Morgan Hill and Diana Murphy's family.
Enumeration reported that Morgan Hill had a populace of 37,882.
Morgan Hill's economy can be defined by its place inside Silicon Valley, which characterizes the economy into two chief categories: its status as an upscale leisure and residentiary improve for Silicon Valley, which drives Morgan Hill's real estate, recreation, hospitality, and entertainment industries, and its participation in the high-technology industries of Silicon Valley, which drive Morgan Hill's technology companies, start-ups, and research & evolution firms.
Numerous companies of other industries are based in Morgan Hill as well, such as the Gryphon Financial Group (finance), Specialized Bicycle Components, (major global manufacturer of high performance bicycles), and the Paramit Corporation (high tech medical device manufacturer).
Morgan Hill is served by the weekly Morgan Hill Times, established in 1894 and presented by New SV Media. The biweekly Morgan Hill Life, lifestyle publication, established in 2013, is presented by Morgan Hill Life, LLC.
Notable high tech companies that are headquartered or have their American command posts in Morgan Hill include Anritsu (Japanese telecommunications company), Flextronics (the world's 2nd biggest electronics-manufacturing service provider), Velodyne (sensor and laser developer), Ten - Cate Advanced Composites (Dutch advanced composite materials manufacturer), and the Paramit Corporation (high tech medical device manufacturer).
1 Morgan Hill Unified School District 730 Coyote Creek Parkway, north of Morgan Hill, extending to San Jose Uvas Canyon County Park, positioned a several miles west of Morgan Hill in the Santa Cruz Mountains Morgan Hill Community Park, including a skate park and off-leash dog park Morgan Hill Community and Cultural Center, amphitheater and satellite ground of Gavilan College Morgan Hill's government is composed of the Morgan Hill City Council, its legislative branch, the Mayor of Morgan Hill, its semi-executive branch, and the departments of Morgan Hill City Hall.
The current Mayor of Morgan Hill is Steve Tate, who has served as such since 2006. The current Morgan Hill City Manager is Steve Rymer.
In the California State Legislature, Morgan Hill is represented through the 17th Senate District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning, and in the 30th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Anna Caballero.
Federally, Morgan Hill is in California's 19th congressional district, represented by Democrat Zoe Lofgren. The historic Morgan Hill School Building homes the Stratford School .
The Morgan Hill Unified School District serves the community.
Morgan Hill's enhance high schools are Live Oak High School, south Santa Clara County's earliest secondary school (est.
Morgan Hill's locale in southern Silicon Valley makes it very accessible to the various, world-known universities and establishments positioned throughout the Silicon Valley/South Bay Area region, such as Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Santa Clara University, and Saint Mary's College of California.
Morgan Hill and serves as the seat of the Morgan Hill Museum today.
Small general aviation airplane are served by the uncontrolled San Martin Airport (E16), positioned at San Martin, about 6 km (3.7 mi) south of Morgan Hill.
Caltrain provides weekday rush-hour commuter rail service to the Santa Clara Valley, the San Francisco Peninsula and San Francisco from the Morgan Hill station. Water and sewage services are provided by the City of Morgan Hill.
Santa Clara County Library District operates the Morgan Hill Library. Morgan Hill has five sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: City of Morgan Hill, CA.
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Morgan Hill Times - Gourmet Greatness Silicon Valley Business Journal - Frank Leal's Boutique Downtown Morgan Hill Hotel is Ready to Go Silicon Valley Business Journal - Morgan Hill Businesses Team Up to Lure SV Staycation Crowds City of Morgan Hill - History Morgan Hill Historical Society - Villa Mira Monte Morgan Hill does not have water rights to the close-by reservoirs; the city's waterworks consists of a number of deep wells and aboveground steel storage tanks.
Jackson Meadows Expanded Initial Study, Earth Metrics Inc., San Mateo, Calif., prepared for the town/city of Morgan Hill, October 16, 1989 Morgan Hill Museum "Morgan Hill city, California Fact Sheet American Fact - Finder U.S.
Environmental Impact Report for the Long Term Wastewater Management Plan, Cities of Gilroy and Morgan Hill, Earth Metrics, Inc.
1986, prepared for metros/cities of Gilroy and Morgan Hill and State of California Environmental Clearinghouse "2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Morgan Hill city".
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