Gilroy Community History

Website Links:

• City of Gilroy
• City of Gilroy History
• Gilroy Garlic Festival

Places to Visit:

• Chitactac-Adams Heritage County Park
  10001 Watsonville Road
  Gilroy, CA 95020
  408.323.0107
  

  Includes bedrock mortars and petroglyphs left by the Ohlone Indians and the Adams schoolhouse which was sited on this property from the 1850s until 1956.

• Gilroy Gardens Family Theme Park
  3050 Hecker Pass Hwy (Hwy 152)
  Gilroy, CA 95020
  408.840.7100

• Gilroy Museum
  195 Fifth Street
  Gilroy, CA 95020
  408.846.0446

• Mt. Madonna County Park
  7850 Pole Line Rd
  Watsonville, CA 95076
  408.842.2341
  
  Ruins of Cattle Baron Henry Miller’s summer home.
  
  

Print Sources:

Cookery

• Bicknell, Patricia Cimino. Nana and Friends: A Collection Of Italian Cooking And Memories "a Pinch Of This And A Pich Of That", Gilroy, CA 1995.
• The Complete Garlic Lovers' Cookbook: From Gilroy, Garlic Capital of the World, Celestial Arts, 1987.
• The Garlic Lovers' Cookbook: From Gilroy, Garlic Capital of the World, Celestial Arts, 1982.
• The Garlic Lovers' Cookbook: Volume II : from Gilroy, Garlic Capital of the World, Celestial Arts, 1985.
• Gilroy Garlic Festival. Garlic Lovers' Greatest Hits, 1979-1993: 15 Years of Prize-winning Recipes, Celestial Arts, 1993.

History

• Adema, Pauline. Garlic Capital of the World: Gilroy, Garlic, and the Making of A Festive Foodscape, University Press of Mississippi, 2009.
• Arbuckle, Clyde and F. Ralph Rambo. Santa Clara County Ranchos, Rosicrucian Press, 1973.
• Barratt, Elizabeth. A Country Doctor in the Valley of Heart's Delight: The Life and times of Pioneer Gilroy Physician and Mayor Heverland Rogers Chesboro, MD, Gilroy, CA 2011.
• Burgess, Ray. I.O.O.F. Children's Home, 1897-1957: This History, R and K Burgess, 1997.
• Butler, Phyllis Filiberti. Old Santa Clara Valley: A Guide to Historic Buildings from Palo Alto to Gilroy, Wide World PubTetra, 1991.
• Butler, Phyllis Filiberti. The Valley of Santa Clara: Historic Buildings, 1792-1920, Junior League of San Jose, 1975.
• Gilroy (Calif) Planning Department. Historic Building Study, City of Gilroy Planning Department, 1980.
• Gilroy's First Century of Incorporation, 1870-1970: A History of the City, Dispatch Printing, 1970.
• Igler, David. Industrial Cowboys: Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920, University of California Press, 2001.
• Ketchum, Marion. In Dedication for Years of Hard Work, The Gilroy Senior Center, 1992.
• Myer, Chuck. Hecker Pass: A Historical Adventure, Gilroy, CA 1993.
• Myer, Chuck. Pacheco Past: A History of the Gateway to Santa Clara County, Gilroy, CA 1992.
• Nichols, Kathryn McKenzie. Smell It Like it Is: Tales from the Garlic Capital of the World, Fithian Press, 1991.
• Pace, Pauline. Santa Clara County Heritage Resource Inventory, Santa Clara County Historical Heritage Commission, 1975.
• Pierce, Marjorie. East of the Gabilans: The Ranches, the Towns, the People--yesterday and Today, Valley Publishers, 1977.
• Pierce, Marjorie. The Martin Murphy Family Saga, California History Center & Foundation, 2000.
• Rambo, Ralph F. Almost Forgotten: [cartoon Pen and Inklings of the Old Santa Clara Valley] Written, Drawn and Hand-lettered, Santa Clara?, CA 1964.
• Roddy, William Crane. The Sanchez Files: The Probate Proceedings on the Drowning of José Maria Sánchez at the Pájaro River, Christmas Eve, 1852, and the Conspiracy to Plunder the Estate of His Widow, Encarnación Ortega : Based on Court Records, Monterey and San Benito Counties, California, 1853-1857, History Co, 1995.
• Salewske, Claudia. Gilroy, Arcadia, 2003.
• Salewske, Claudia. Pieces of the Past: A Story of Gilroy, Gilroy, CA 1982.
• Santa Clara County Heritage Resource Inventory, County of Santa Clara Historical Heritage Commission, 1999.
• Shueh, Sam. South Santa Clara County, Arcadia Publishing, 2008.
• Shumate, Albert. Francisco Pacheco of Pacheco Pass, University of the Pacific, 1977.
• Old Ties, New Attachments: Italian-American Folklife in the West, Library of Congress , For sale by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1992.
• Treadwell, Edward Francis. The Cattle King: A Dramatized Biography, Western Tanager Press, 1981.
• Williams, James C. Sketches of Gilroy, Santa Clara Co., Gilroy, Gilroy Historical Society, 1980.
• Windmills, Water Towers & Tank Houses of Santa Clara County, Bob and Louise Levy, 1996.
• Woollacott, Angela. Gilroy's Old City Hall, 1906-1989, California History Center, 1991.

Student Anthologies

• Author! Author, Gilroy High School, 1978? 1987.
• Doing It Right: New Energy Poems from Mt. Madonna High School, Mt Madonna High School, 1987.
• Just Because: An Anthology of Poetry from Mt. Madonna High School, Mt Madonna High School, 1996.
• Matamorphosis: An Anthology of Poetry from Mt. Madonna High School, Gilroy, CA 1997.
• Reflections: An Anthology of Poetry from Mt. Madonna High School, Spring 1998, Gilroy, CA 1998.
• A Sense of Mt. Madonna: An Anthology of Poetry from Mt. Madonna High School, Spring 1999, Gilroy, CA 1999.
• We Can Build A Bridge: An Anthology of Poetry and Art, Gilroy, CA 2002.
• When They Were Plums. A Collection of Memories. Compiled and Written by the Class Members of U.S. History, Honors, Gilroy High School, 1985-1986, Gilroy High School, 1986?

Yearbooks

• Academy of Humanities and Fine Arts Yearbook. Gilory, CA. Years Covered: 2000, 2006, 2007, 2011.
• Las Animas. Gilroy High School Yearbook. Gilroy, CA. Years Covered: 1973, 1988, 1992, 1995-1998, 2001, 2004-2011.
• Brownell Middle School Yearbook. Gilroy, CA. Years Covered: 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
• In Progress. Christopher High School Yearbook. Gilroy, CA. Years Covered: 2010, 2011.
• Mt. Madonna High School Yearbook. Gilroy, CA. Years Covered: 2002.

Microform Sources

• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Reel 14. Gilroy (#566, maps of Gilroy from 1886, 1892, 1906 and 1926), Chadwyck-Healy, 1990.
  

Newspapers:

• The Gilroy Dispatch April 2002 - Current (on the Web)
• The Dispatch (Current & previous week at Circ Desk)
• The Dispatch 1944- (Microfilm)
• Gilroy Evening Dispatch (Sept. 1925 - Dec. 1943) (Microfilm)
• Gilroy Advocate (Oct. 1868 - Dec. 1943) (Microfilm)

Videorecordings:

• California's Gold: #6008, Circus Trees. Huell Howser Productions: 2004, DVD.
• Gilroy Library Expansion/Renovation Coummunity Presentation. City of Gilroy: 2001, Videocassette.

Vertical Files:

• Garlic
• Garlic Festival
• Gilroy Demographics
• Gilroy Famous People
• Gilroy History
• Gilroy Historic Buildings
• Gilroy Hot Springs
• Gilroy KFAT Radio
• Gilroy Library
• Gilroy Historical Museum
• Gilroy Song
• Gilroy Weather/Climate
• Pacheco Pass
• Pinnacles National Monument