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4,568
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$235,469
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America/Los_Angeles
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Portola Valley, CA - History
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Welcome to the Portola Valley Home page. The Portola Valley Home page provides as much information as possible on Portola Valley. Knowing Portola Valley’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Portola Valley’s Home page, you will also find Portola Valley’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Portola Valley has a population of 4568. 44.3% of Portola Valley’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.7 are female. 65.7% of Portola Valley is married and 78.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $2,000,001, and the average rent is $3,501. Household median income in Portola Valley is $235,469, and the individual median income is $86,346. Portola Valley’s Ethnic is the following: White(84.4%), Asian(8.8%), Hispanic(7.8%), Multiple(5.3%), Other(1%), Black(0.4%), Native(0.1%).
Portola Valley was named for Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá, who led the first party of Europeans to explore the San Francisco Peninsula in 1769. The Native Americans already present were Ohlone and specifically the group (or groups) known as Olpen or Guemelento but these were later moved to Mission Dolores and Mission Santa Clara de Asís which claimed the land and peoples.
The area's written history dates back to 1833, when a square league of land was given to Domingo Peralta and Máximo Martínez by Governor José Figueroa to form the Rancho Cañada del Corte de Madera. In those days it was used for lumbering and cattle grazing. By the 1880s Andrew S. Hallidie, a wire rope manufacturer, had built his country home of Eagle Home Farm in what is now Portola Valley.
He built a 7,341 foot long aerial tramway from his house to the top of Skyline in 1894 though it was removed after his death in 1900.In 1886 the name Portola-Crespi Valley was bestowed on the area from the then community of Crystal Springs (now under Crystal Springs Reservoir to the then community of Searsville (in the area of the present day Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve); Crespi is for Juan Crespí, a Franciscan friar with the Portolà expedition. The town was incorporated in 1964.
Bill Lane was the first mayor.
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