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Campbell is a city in Santa Clara County in the heart of Silicon Valley, founded by Benjamin Campbell, who came to California in 1846 and in 1851 bought 160 acres in the southern Santa Clara Valley to farm hay and grain.

About a third of modern Campbell lies within the 1839 Rancho Rinconada de Los Gatos Mexican land grant.

Campbell sold his land to a railroad company in 1878 for five dollars an acre, and the rail stop that grew up there turned the area into a fruit-shipping center; the first shipment, five boxes of apricots, went out in the summer of 1886.

Campbell became known as the "Orchard City," famous for prunes, apricots and cherries, and was home to some of the world's largest fruit drying yards and canneries.

English immigrant John Colpitts Ainsley founded the J.C. Ainsley Packing Company, which became Campbell's largest employer; by 1918 it canned more than 5.5 million cans of fruit a year, most of it shipped to England.

Ainsley's 1925 Tudor Revival home, the Ainsley House, is now a house museum beside Campbell's civic center, preserved with its original 1920s furnishings.

The Bank of Campbell was founded in 1895, and its building still stands in historic downtown Campbell.

The City of Campbell incorporated on March 28, 1952, and afterward grew rapidly as its orchard lands disappeared tract by tract.

The 2020 census counted 43,959 residents in Campbell, up from 39,349 in 2010, and Census estimates put the city at about 16,900 households.

Campbell's Pruneyard Shopping Center was the subject of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, which upheld free-speech rights under California's constitution; the Pruneyard now also hosts the FBI's South Bay offices.