Agnew's Village, California
Agnew's Village was a small unincorporated village in what is now Santa Clara, California. It was named for Abram Agnew, a Santa Clara Valley pioneer from Ohio who settled there around 1873. depot, in what was once Agnew's Village Agnew donated of land for a South Pacific Coast Railroad station and laid out the town, causing the station and town to be referred to as "Agnew's". The railroad depot is still standing.
Agnew's land appears on 1877 maps, opposite Lick Mill, a paper mill operated by James Lick. Agnew's Village was annexed into Santa Clara in the mid 1980s.
The Agnew name lives on in Agnew Park in Santa Clara, as well as Agnews Developmental Center, the western campus of which was located in Agnew's Village. The campus has since been turned into the Rivermark community and an R&D campus for Oracle Corporation. The latter includes the Agnews Historic Park.- American baseball player and manager Marv Owen was born in Agnew in 1906.
- Edward J. Livernash, a U.S. Representative from California, lived in Agnew following his retirement, and died there in 1938.
