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San Benito County, California
San Benito County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Named: Named after San Benito Valley. In his expedition in 1772,
Crespi named a small river in honor of San Benidicto (Saint Benedict), the
patron saint of the married, and it is from the contraction of this name that
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Neighboring Counties:
- Northeast: Merced County
- East: Fresno County
- Southwest: Monterey County
- Northwest: Santa Cruz County; Santa Clara County
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
act locally."
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Penn Foster High School
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