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San Juan Bautista (Spanish for "Saint John the Baptist") is a city in San Benito County, in the U.S. state of California. The population was 2,089 as of the 2020 census . [ 6 ] San Juan Bautista was founded in 1797 by the Spanish under Fermín de Lasuén , with the establishment of Mission San Juan Bautista .
State Route 129 (SR 129) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California, connecting State Route 1 in Watsonville in Santa Cruz County with U.S. Route 101 near San Juan Bautista in San Benito County.
The cemetery's origins date back to 1839, during the Mexican period of California, when city officials of the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe began to bury the dead on the northern side of the San Juan Bautista Hills, in modern-day South San Jose. [3] [4] [5] It was known simply as the Pueblo Graveyard. [5]
Mission San Juan Bautista in 1934. Mission San Juan Bautista was founded in 1797, as the 15th Spanish mission in what is now California.It was well sited for its intended purpose, the conversion of area Native Americans to Roman Catholicism, and was highly successful.
Thus San Juan Bautista was a popular stopping stop on the El Camino Real road to Monterey. Monterey was the Capitol of California from 1776 to 1849. [2] In 1861, stagecoach service came to San Juan, and the Plaza Stables were built to house and care for the many stagecoach horses. The Plaza Hotel became popular and well known in this time.
The José Castro House (Spanish: Casa José Castro), sometimes known as the Castro-Breen Adobe, is a historic adobe home in San Juan Bautista, California, facing the Plaza de San Juan. The Monterey Colonial style house was built 1838-41 by General José Antonio Castro , a former Governor of Alta California .
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El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.