Palo Alto, California Wikipedia
Palo Alto (/ ˌ p æ l oʊ ˈ æ l t oʊ /; Spanish for ' tall stick ') is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.. The city of Palo Alto was established in 1894 by the American industrialist Leland Stanford when he founded Stanford University in memory ...