Santa Clara County History

Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society
The Society is headquartered in the Santa Clara City Library. Its members assist the Library in maintaining an international genealogy collection and work on projects to preserve the history of Santa Clara County. The site includes the Early Settler File of Santa Clara County and a Santa Clara County History Books Index.

California Room Database
Read about and search for Santa Clara County pioneer names and places using the California Room Database of the San Jose Public Library. This database was created by indexing books, scrapbooks, and clipping files located in the California Room of San Jose’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Library. Check the library catalog for similar items.

Historical Heritage Commission of Santa Clara County Appointed by the Board of Supervisors, this County level Commission serves in an advisory capacity to protect and preserve historic resources in Santa Clara County.  In the past the group has assisted in the publication of a Santa Clara County Heritage Resource Inventory.

History San Jose
This Museum, Archives, and Research Library has a vast collection of artifacts, records, and photographs pertaining to San Jose and Santa Clara Valley History.

Santa Clara County Archives
In October 2006, the County of Santa Clara established a public archive for its historical records.

Santa Clara County CAGenWeb
Part of the California GenWeb project, provides information and links to free websites that are helpful to genealogists and local historians doing Santa Clara County family and local history research.

Santa Clara County Early History & United States National Register Properties
The National Park Service has assembled information on the early history of Santa Clara County and a List of Sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Santa Clara County.

Silicon Valley High Tech History

Intel Museum 
Located in Santa Clara, Intel Corporation—a leader in technology exploration for the last 35 years—operates a museum showcasing the company’s history and the growth of the semiconductor and microprocessor industry.

Computer History Museum Timeline of the History of Computing
This interactive timeline covers major developments in the history of computing, many of which occurred in Silicon Valley from 1950 to 1994.  The Computer History Museum is located in Mountain View.

Silicon Valley Company Archive (1986-1993)
In the California Room of the Martin Luther King, Jr. San Jose Public Library, this collection is made up of 713 boxes of material related to high tech companies functioning in Silicon Valley between 1986 and 1993. The materials were donated to the San Jose Public Library by the companies in response to requests made to them by Library Representatives. These boxes contain annual reports, brochures, catalogs, company histories, press releases, product literature and more. Many Santa Clara high tech companies included.

Santa Clara Valley Historical Association
An umbrella Historical Association for Silicon Valley, SCVHA publishes books, produces documentary films and maintains an online archive about the history of Silicon Valley with an emphasis on the people and places connected to its high tech companies.

Stanford's Silicon Valley Archives 
Learn which important historical papers pertaining to Silicon Valley history and companies are held by this Stanford University archive.