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Green shaded area labeled "Market Place" in the illustration is now called Plaza de Cesar E. Chavez. This park has had many names:

Prior to 1848 - The Plaza, Market Square
1848 - Market Place, Market Square
1878 - City Hall Park, or The Plaza
1968 - City Plaza, or The Plaza, or Plaza Park
1993 - Plaza de Cesar E. Chavez, sometimes Cesar Chavez Plaza

The map was drawn by the redoubtable Chester S. Lyman in 1848 - just in time for San Jose's reign as state capital in 1849. Note that The Plaza is actually "squarish." In later years this evolved into an ellipse - its present shape.

The rounding off of the southern end of The Plaza occurred with the construction of the Civic Auditorium in 1934.

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