Willow Glen
Willow Glen was named for the willow marsh between the Guadalupe River and Los Gatos Creek. It was a city of its own for nine years, and Lincoln Avenue is still its small-town main street.
Discover Willow Glen
The name comes from the marshy ground between the Guadalupe River and Los Gatos Creek, thick with willows and cattails. Frank Lewis dug the channel that drained it in 1860, and by 1880 Willow Glen farmland sold for nearly ten times the price of land elsewhere in the valley. (Wikipedia)
Lincoln Avenue was Willow Glen Road until 1865, when it was renamed for President Lincoln. To keep the Southern Pacific off that street, Willow Glen incorporated as a city in 1927; in 1936 its voters chose 978 to 871 to join San Jose and its sewer system. (Wikipedia)
Visit San Jose counts more than 250 businesses along Lincoln Avenue, which it calls San Jose’s local treasure. (Visit San Jose)
Since 1950 Willow Glen households have set small, matching Christmas trees on their front lawns, ten feet from the sidewalk; the custom now reaches more than 200 streets in the San Jose area. (Wikipedia)
The directory is being filled in — check back soon.
San Jose magic: Orchards, adobes and a city that grew from a pueblo
→
Inquiry
We read everything
LET’S COLLAB. Run a business in San José? Want to be listed or featured, spotted something to fix, or want to bring Made In to your own town? Tell us.