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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.
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.
Don José Castro, a former Governor of Alta California. José Castro House in 1934. José Antonio Castro's father José Tiburcio Castro was a soldier, member of the Diputación (the legislature of Alta California), [4] administrator of Mission San Juan Bautista after it was secularized, and grantee of Rancho Sausal.
The town of San Juan Bautista, which grew up around the mission, expanded rapidly during the California Gold Rush and continues to be a thriving community today. The mission is situated adjacent to the San Andreas Fault , and has suffered damage from numerous earthquakes , such as those of 1800 and 1906.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Benito County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
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 three-bell campanario ("bell wall") at Mission San Juan Bautista. Two of the bells were salvaged from the original chime, which was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake . The scarcity of imported materials, together with a lack of skilled laborers, compelled the Fathers to employ simple building materials and methods in the ...