Lake Cunningham is an artificial lake in Lake Cunningham Park , in East San Jose, California , near the Eastridge Mall and Eastridge Transit Center . It is not a geological feature recognized in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). It is located on Capitol Expressway and stands next to Reid–Hillview Airport . The Lake Cunningham Skate Park and Raging Waters theme park are also in Lake Cunningham Park.
6-479: The Lake Cunningham–Eastridge Mall area was one of Santa Clara Valley's three permanent wetland complexes called "lagunas". The area was called Laguna Socayre (or Secayre) during the initial Euro-American settlement (1769–1850), and was part of the Rancho Yerba Buena or Rancho Socayre land grant of 1833. Laguna Socayre covered a much larger area than Lake Cunningham Park does now. Due to intense urbanization in
12-440: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This San Jose, California -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rancho Yerba Buena Rancho Yerba Buena or Rancho Socayre was a 24,332-acre (98.47 km ) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa to Antonio Chaboya (also spelled Chavoya or Chabolla). The grant
18-683: The cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War , the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Yerba Buena was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patented to Antonio Chaboya in 1859. Gustave Touchard (1818–1888) bought part of Rancho Yerba Buena from Chaboya. Touchard
24-461: The surrounding hill areas, the storm water that historically exited the canyons and percolated through the gravel below ground was channeled into pipes below the streets to Thompson Creek and Lake Cunningham. This has led to an increase in runoff during the winter storms. The lake and park are named after James Farnham Cunningham who owned the land before the city acquired it for flood control . This Santa Clara County, California -related article
30-505: Was a San Francisco furniture dealer, and president of the Union Insurance Company from 1866 to 1888. During a lengthy court proceeding regarding a boundary dispute, squatters settled on portions of the property. In 1861, San Jose sheriff Murphy evicted the squatters. Antonio Chaboya died in 1865, leaving the property to his family. His son, Francisco Chaboya, and nephew, Salvador Chaboya (1837–) were named as executors of
36-501: Was between Coyote Creek on the west and the foothills, and encompassed present day Evergreen neighborhood of southeast San José . Francisco Xavier Antonio Chaboya (1803–1865) was the son of De Anza Expedition soldier Marcos Chaboya, and a brother of Anastasio Chaboya, grantee of Rancho Sanjon de los Moquelumnes . Antonio Chaboya married his first wife Maria Juliana Feliciana Rosario Buitron in 1826. After her death, he married Maria Ramona Encarnacion Higuera in 1846. With
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