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Sunnyvale

California, United States
Also known as: Encinal, Murphy’s Station
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Sunnyvale, city, Santa Clara county, western California, U.S. Adjacent to the cities of Santa Clara and Mountain View, Sunnyvale lies at the southern end of San Francisco Bay, near San Jose. Settled in 1850, it was known as Murphy’s Station (later as Encinal), but it was renamed Sunnyvale in 1912 and developed as a fruit-processing centre. The city’s economic foundation shifted, however, when the U.S. Navy dirigible base, built nearby in the 1930s, and the...

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