California Historic Landmarks Project File -- Armistice Oak Tree
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California Historic Landmarks Project File -- Armistice Oak Tree
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Created Date
Circa 1940
Description
Private citizens worried that the state's deteriorating historical sites would disappear unless efforts were made to save them. Groups such as the Native Sons of the Golden West initiated preservation programs throughout the state, restoring, funding, and administering many historic sites with private funding. Historic landmark registration became official in 1931. In that year, the State Legislature passed an act requiring the Department of Natural Resources to direct a Historic Landmarks Project, delegating administration to the California State Chamber of Commerce. Natural Resources embarked upon an effort to collect information regarding the historical significance, general background, and area development of state parks, historic sites, monuments, in order to determine which sites would be designated historic landmarks. Each investigation resulted in the production of a historical monograph regarding the potential resource, laying the foundation for the extensive state park and historical site system that Californians enjoy to this day. The records presented here show the results of research into Santa Clara County's Armistice Oak Tree. Under the branches of this tree in 1847, Francisco Sanchez, leader of the last band of Californios protesting American occupancy of California, surrendered his arms.
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Temporal Coverage
1930
1929 to 1941
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Format
Manuscript
Extent
280
Pages
Dimensions
8 1/2
x
11
in
Copyright Statement
Public domain. No restrictions on use.
Country of Creation
United States
Contributing Organization
Call Number
F3809:10
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