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  2. Mission San José (California) - Wikipedia

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    Mission San José is a Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California, United States. It was founded on June 11, 1797, by the Franciscan order and was the fourteenth Spanish mission established in California. The mission is the namesake of the Mission San José district of Fremont, which was an independent town subsumed ...

  3. Timeline of San Jose, California - Wikipedia

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    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] 1822 – Mexicans in power. [5] 1840 – Population: 750 ...

  4. Architecture of the California missions - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The architecture of the California missions was influenced by several factors, those being the limitations in the construction materials that were on hand, an overall lack of skilled labor, and a desire on the part of the founding priests to emulate notable structures in their Spanish homeland. While no two mission complexes are identical ...

  5. El Camino Real (California) - Wikipedia

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    El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.

  6. California mission clash of cultures - Wikipedia

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    The California mission clash of cultures occurred at the Spanish Missions in California during the Spanish Las Californias - New Spain and Mexican Alta California eras of control, with lasting consequences after American statehood. The Missions were religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans from 1769 to 1823 for the purpose ...

  7. Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 August 2024. 18th to 19th-century Catholic religious outposts in California For the establishments in modern-day Mexico, see Spanish missions in Baja California. The locations of the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California. Part of a series on Spanish missions in the Americas of the Catholic Church ...

  8. Ohlone - Wikipedia

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    The Ohlone (/ oʊˈloʊni / oh-LOH-nee), formerly known as Costanoans (from Spanish costeño meaning 'coast dweller'), are a Native American people of the Northern California coast. When Spanish explorers and missionaries arrived in the late 18th century, the Ohlone inhabited the area along the coast from San Francisco Bay through Monterey Bay ...

  9. History of San Jose, California - Wikipedia

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    Mission San José was not founded until 1797, about 20 miles (30 km) north of San Jose in what is now Fremont.) The town was founded by the colonists led to California by Anza, as a farming community to provide food for the presidios of San Francisco and Monterey. In 1778, the pueblo had a population of 68.