The Townspeople of Los Gatos is an united townsfolk in Santa Clara County, Calif., Unsegmented States. The collection was 28,592 at the 2000 numeration. It is situated in the San Francisco Bay Region at the southwesterly predicament of San Jose in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Homes are mostly upscale, varying from century-old one million-dollar cottages in the downtown country to 10 - 20 million-dollar galactic bespoke homes in the close hills. The municipality is noted for its teeny, pedestrian-friendly downtown, with umteen boutique shops, upscale restaurants, and thriving subject vocation. It is also a preferred goal for modify shopping.  The townspeople’s founding dates to the mid-1850s with the construction of a flour procedure, Forbes Grinder, by River Alexanders Forbes along Los Gatos Stream. The crush's two-story stone hardware extension has been preservable as a museum just off of Main Street. The resolution that was legitimate in the 1860s was originally titled for the pulverisation, but the repute was denatured to Los Gatos after the Romance alter painter. The townsfolk was organized in 1887 and remained an arch townspeople for the logging industry in the Santa Cruz Mountains finished the end of the 19th century. In the archean 20th century, the townspeople became a thriving farming town with apricots, grapes and prunes beingness grown in the area. Along with untold of the Santa Clara Vale, Los Gatos became a suburban vocation for San Jose origin in the 1950s, and the townspeople was mostly built-out by the 1980s. Downtown Los Gatos has retained and rebuilt numerous of its Victorian-era homes and advertisement buildings. Additional worthy buildings are the Forbes Machine annexe, dating to 1880 and now protection a history museum; Los Gatos Advanced School which dates from the 1920s; and the Old Town Shopping Lineman, erstwhile the University Avenue Polish (the train was established in 1882; the actual buildings affiliate to 192...