Looking west from Escuela Pkwy
Looking west from Escuela Pkwy
The creek you pass over north of the intersection of Jacklin and N.
Milpitas Blvd.
is called Calera Creek. Where Calera joins Penitencia Creek was the
western boundary
of Juan Higera's Rancho de los Tularcitos with Rancho Rincón de
los Esteros
owned by Ignacio Alviso, who as a child had come to California as a
member of the
Anza expedition. Penitencia Creek was also the western boundary of
José Maria
Alviso's Rancho Milpitas land and that of his father, Ignacio.
Near the banks of Calera Creek several early farmers of the American
period built
their homes. George Masunaga, who grew up nearby, remembered using a
pitch fork to
catch steelhead trout on their annual spawn in the creek. All of the
local creeks
in Milpitas were prime fishing spots until pollution killed the fish.
Today, very
limited runs of steelhead and salmon are again being found in South Bay
Area streams.
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