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When the party reached San Diego on July 1, Serra stayed behind to start Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions [29] (including the nearby Visita de la Presentación, also founded under Serra's leadership). Junipero Serra moved to the area that is now Monterey in 1770, and founded Mission San Carlos Borroméo de ...
Junípero Serra High School (commonly Serra or JSHS) is a Private, Catholic college preparatory high school in San Mateo, California, United States, serving students in grades 9–12. A part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, this school provides education for young men. The school has an academic focus with a college ...
"San Junipero" is the fourth episode in the third series of the British science fiction anthology television series Black Mirror. Written by series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker and directed by Owen Harris , it premiered on Netflix on 21 October 2016, with the rest of series three.
The next day another memorial for Serra was torn down in Los Angeles at Father Serra Park by about five dozen indigenous activists. [2] [3] Other statues of Junípero Serra were involved as the protests expanded to include monuments of individuals associated with the controversy over the genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas. [4]
[13] [2]: 53 In 1997, the Historic Preservation Alliance of San Buenaventura put the "Original Junipero Serra statue, boxed up in an industrial yard at 2951 N. Ventura Ave." on a list of the top ten most endangered historical sites. [14] As of April 2018, the concrete statue remained at the OST yard in a decaying wooden crate. [12] [15]
It is the site where the San Diego Presidio and the San Diego Mission, the first European settlements in what is now the West Coast of the United States, were founded in 1769. The park encompasses about 40 acres (16 ha) and offers views of the city, the San Diego River valley, and the Pacific Ocean. The grounds are open to the public.
The land for Junipero Serra Park was acquired by the county in 1956. [3] The effort was led by San Mateo County Parks Director Ralph Shaw and the site, initially known as North County Park, was dedicated on May 22, 1960. [1] A Master Plan for the park was published in 1981; [2] it identified four areas for development: De Anza (family picnic area)
Junipero Serra Boulevard is a major boulevard in and south of San Francisco named after Franciscan friar Junipero Serra. Within the city, it forms part of the route of State Route 1, the shortest connection between Interstate 280 and the Golden Gate Bridge. The remainder, in San Mateo County, was bypassed or replaced by I-280, the Junipero ...