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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 .
Rancho San Juan Bautista was a 8,880-acre (35.9 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to José Agustín Narvaez. [1] The grant extended along the Guadalupe River from Los Gatos to San Jose .
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.
In 1777, the area was surveyed by the Anza Expedition, led by Juan Bautista de Anza. [ 2 ] As early as 1839, during the Mexican period of California , 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, which eventually became the site of Oak Hill Memorial Park , the ...
The Marentis House, at 45 Monterey Street in San Juan Bautista, California, was built in 1873.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]It was designed in Gothic Revival style by George Chalmers, a local builder/architect who was from New England and was believed to have been influenced by Alexander Jackson Davis, an architect who authored/illustrated pattern books.
San Juan Islands (in white) and surrounding region Location of the San Juan Islands. The San Juan Islands is an archipelago in the Pacific Northwest of the United States between the U.S. state of Washington and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The San Juan Islands are part of Washington state, and form the core of San Juan County.
San Juan de Miraflores is one of the forty-three districts that make up the province of Lima, located in the department of the same name, in Peru. Is one of the new towns, that have been formed by the massive numbers of people moving from other towns of Metropolitan Lima (such as Miraflores, Surquillo, La Victoria, among others) and from the countryside.
San Juan Bautista District was created on June 25, 1876, during Manuel Pardo y Lavalle term. The Origin and Community Foundation of San Juan Bautista, is given in the Inca era where there was a settlement in which the District of San Juan Bautista, called the Collana Huaranga of San Juan de Urin Ica, under the Inca chiefs of Tataxe Dynasty ...