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Entrance to New Clairvaux Abbey. The Abbey of New Clairvaux is a rural Trappist monastery located in Northern California in the small town of Vina in Tehama County. [1] The farmland, once owned by Leland Stanford, grows prunes, walnuts, and grapes that the monks harvest from the orchards and vineyards to sustain the community.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in California on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008, [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
The monastery was founded by two groups of nuns from the medieval Abbey of Our Lady of Nazareth (commonly called Brecht Abbey) in Belgium in 1962, the first four arriving on the site on 1 November 1962.
Within two years of discovering gold in this town, it was the 3rd largest city in California. The historic district is now an open museum and the best preserved California Gold Rush town. 29: Commander's House, Fort Ross: Commander's House, Fort Ross
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The Monastery and Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, a Roman Catholic monastery in Union City that closed in 1980. Monastery of the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Union City. Newark Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Newark. St. Paul's Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located near Newton.
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.
Tricia Anne Weber: The Spanish Missions of California; California Historical Society; National Register of Historic Places: Early History of the California Coast: List of Sites; California Mission Sketches by Henry Miller, 1856 and Finding Aid to the Documents relating to Missions of the Californias : typescript, 1768-1802 at The Bancroft Library