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  2. Mission San Juan Bautista - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Juan Bautista is a Spanish mission in San Juan Bautista, San Benito County, California.Founded on June 24, 1797, by Fermín de Lasuén of the Franciscan order, the mission was the fifteenth of the Spanish missions established in present-day California.

  3. San Juan Bautista State Historic Park - Wikipedia

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    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. The present mission church, still an active Catholic parish, was built in ...

  4. Plaza Hotel (San Juan Bautista, California) - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Juan Bautista, called San Juan by locals of the mission days, was the fifteenth Spanish missions in California. Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821 and passed the Mexican secularization act of 1833. The Mexican secularization act took most of the mission's lands and buildings way and gave them to connected people.

  5. San Juan Bautista, California - Wikipedia

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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 .

  6. El Camino Real (California) - Wikipedia

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    The Juan Bautista de Anza expedition of (1775–76) entered Alta California from the southeast (crossing the Colorado River near today's Yuma, Arizona), and picked up Portolá's trail at Mission San Gabriel. De Anza's scouts found easier traveling in several inland valleys, rather than staying on the rugged coast.

  7. List of churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey

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    Mission San Juan Bautista: 406 2nd St, San Juan Bautista: The 15th Spanish mission in Alta California, founded in 1797; functions now as a parish church [19] Sacred Heart & St. Benedict's 680 College St, Hollister 1200 Fairview Rd, Hollister Sacred Heart parish founded 1877 [20] Immaculate Conception 7290 Airline Hwy, Tres Pinos [21]

  8. Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Juan Bautista: 1,248 people in 1823 [34] 850 people remaining in 1834 [34] "The only mission whose population increased from 1810 to 1820. This was due to the fact that its numbers were recruited from the eastern tribes." [34] "The appalling smell from the graveyard saturated the entire Mission building." [4] 16 Mission Santa Cruz

  9. List of Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Juan Capistrano: 1776 San Juan Capistrano: The Serra Chapel, built in 1782, is the oldest extant building in California. [7] Serves as a parish church and museum. Mission San Luis Rey de Francia: 1798 Oceanside