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The Campus Plan. In 1876, Leland Stanford purchased 650 acres of what had been El Rancho San Francisquito for a country home and began the development of his Palo Alto Stock Farm for trotting horses.
LAFCO of Santa Clara County. Cities Service Review 283. 20 Stanford University. 20.1 Agency Overview. Founded in 1891, Stanford is a private university that is governed by a Board of Trustees and a University. president. The University is comprised of more than 70 undergraduate departments and seven. professional graduate schools. As of 2015, the total student, faculty, and staff population is 29,523.