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7 hours agoFact Brief: Was Silicon Valley once known as the Valley of Heart's Delight? - San Jose Spotlight
Before becoming a hub for technological innovation, the Santa Clara Valley was famous for its fruit trees, which gave it the nickname Valley of Heart's Delight. After the Gold Rush - and the region's subsequent population boom - Californians grew cherries, prunes, apricots, apples, citrus and more across the region. By the 1930s, more than half of the valley's land was dedicated to fruit tree orchards.
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