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1803 – San Jose de Guadalupe church built. [2] 1805 – Mission San Jose's church built in 1805, not 1803, and named La Mission del Gloriosisimo Patriarch San Jose, or just Mission San Jose, but not San Jose de Guadalupe according to San Jose Mission's history page. [3] 1809 – Mission San Jose's church completed and dedicated. [4]
For thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers, the area now known as San Jose was inhabited by several groups of Ohlone Native Americans. [3] Permanent European presence in the area came with the 1770 founding of the Presidio of Monterey and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo by Gaspar de Portolà and Junípero Serra, about sixty miles (100 km) to the south.
Pages in category "History of San Jose, California" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. ... Timeline of San Jose, California; A. Alum Rock ...
Timeline of Sacramento, California; Timeline of San Bernardino, California history; Timeline of San Diego; Timeline of San Francisco; Timeline of San Jose, California; Timeline of Santa Ana, California
The nearest deep-water seaport was San Francisco Bay, and the rapidly growing town of San Francisco became the home for bankers who financed exploration for gold. The Gold Rush brought the world to California. By 1855, some 300,000 "Forty-Niners" had arrived from every continent; many soon left, of course – some rich, most not so fortunate. A ...
The Pacific and Atlantic Railroad Company (P&A) was founded on September 6, 1851, with the goal of building a railroad between San Francisco and San Jose. [2] The route was surveyed and published by the end of 1851, but the P&A was unable to raise funds locally; when the P&A turned to banking houses in New York and England, they were told that no funds could be disbursed without first ...
The History of Mission San Jose, California, 1797–1835. Academy Library Press, Fresno, CA. Milliken, Randall (1995). A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769–1910. Ballena Press Publication, Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0-87919-132-5. Milliken, Randall (2008). Native Americans at Mission San ...
The Peralta Adobe (Spanish: Adobe Peralta), [3] also known as the Luis María Peralta Adobe or the Gonzales-Peralta Adobe, [4] is the oldest building in San Jose, California. [5] The adobe was built in 1797 by José Manuel Gonzeles, one of the founders of San Jose, and is named after Luis María Peralta, its most famous resident.