The Stanford University is actually build on the 650 acres of land that Leland Stanford , the CA Governor and later US senator bought in the year 1876, in order to build a Palo Alto Stock Farm. But the sad demise of his son, made him change his mind into opening a school and a museum in his memory.
Stanford, in the year 1891 was the first non-sectarian universities that was open to both genders, being co-educational, welcoming a batch of more than five hundred students in its opening year.
And since then, Stanford has been the house to many a creative gems as well as technological geniuses.