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Martin Murphy House

1850 establishments in CaliforniaCities in Santa Clara County, CaliforniaHistory of Santa Clara County, CaliforniaPopulated places established in 1850Sunnyvale, California
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The Old Murphy Homestead
The Old Murphy Homestead

The Martin Murphy House was a historic home located in Santa Clara County, California. It was the residence of Martin Murphy Jr., who journeyed to California with his family in 1844, as part of the first wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada. As the founder of Sunnyvale, Murphy had the house constructed using prefabricated lumber that had been transported around the Cape Horn in 1849. This house was the first frame house in Santa Clara County. The Murphy family maintained their residency in this house until 1953 when the city of Sunnyvale took ownership of the property. In 1961, a fire destroyed the house. The California Historical Landmark #644 now marks the location of Murphy's residence at Murphy Park in Sunnyvale.

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Martin Murphy House
North Sunnyvale Avenue, Sunnyvale

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North Sunnyvale Avenue 260
94086 Sunnyvale
California, United States
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Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale, California

Sunnyvale () is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County, California. Sunnyvale lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101 and is bordered by portions of San Jose to the north, Moffett Federal Airfield and NASA Ames Research Center to the northwest, Mountain View to the northwest, Los Altos to the southwest, Cupertino to the south, and Santa Clara to the east. As of the 2020 United States Census, Sunnyvale's population was 155,805, making it the county's second most populous city (after San Jose) and the seventh most populous city in the San Francisco Bay Area. As one of the major cities comprising California's high-tech area known as Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale is the birthplace of the video game industry, former location of Atari headquarters, and the location of a fictional computer game company in the 1983 film WarGames. Many technology companies are headquartered in Sunnyvale and many more operate there, including several aerospace/defense companies. Sunnyvale was also the home to Onizuka Air Force Station, often referred to as "the Blue Cube" due to the color and shape of its windowless main building. The facility, previously known as Sunnyvale Air Force Station, was named for the deceased Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka. It served as an artificial satellite control facility of the U.S. military until August 2010 and has since been decommissioned and demolished. Sunnyvale is one of the few U.S. cities to have a single unified Department of Public Safety, where all personnel are trained as firefighters, police officers, and EMTs, so that they can respond to an emergency in any of the three roles. Library services for the city are provided by the Sunnyvale Public Library, located at the Sunnyvale Civic Center.