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The Juan Bautista de Anza Community Park is in Calabasas, California, and De Anza Park and the De Anza Community and Teen Center are in Ontario, California. A 20-foot (6.1 m) statue of Anza, sculpted in 1939, is located in Riverside, California at the corner of Magnolia Ave. and 14th Street, [ 15 ] and another statue stands in Lake Merced park ...
Sherry Peticolas's statue of Juan Bautista de Anza in Riverside, California. On March 20, 1774, Juan Bautista De Anza, leading an exploratory expedition to find a good land route from southern Mexico to Alta California, reached the area today known as Riverside.
Map of Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail routes in Arizona and California California road signage for the Anza Trail. The Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail is a 1,210-mile (1,950 km) trail extending from Nogales on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, through the California desert and coastal areas in Southern California and the Central Coast region to San Francisco. [1]
In 1774 and 1775 Juan Bautista de Anza lead two expeditions through the area that would become the city of Riverside. Markers identify the location his party crossed the Santa Ana River. On the south side of the river, within the city of Riverside, a marker can be found in the Martha McLean – Anza Narrows Park.
His best-known work, the colossal statue of Juan Bautista de Anza at Newman Park in Riverside, was installed in 1940. [7] He also sculpted Fountain Figure at Bonita Union High School in La Verne, Alexander Hamilton at Alexander Hamilton High School.
The park is part of the San Juan Bautista Plaza Historic District, along with the adjacent Mission San Juan Bautista and the Juan de Anza House southeast of the park. The district was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970. [2] [4] It is also a site on the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail.
Statue in Downtown Riverside of famed Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza, whose expedition came through the area in 1774. In the late 18th century and the early 19th century, the area was inhabited by Cahuilla and the Serrano people. Californios such as Bernardo Yorba and Juan Bandini established ranches during the first half of the 19th ...
A replica of Shrady's statue in Brooklyn, New York City. J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain, by Henri-Léon Gréber, Country Club Plaza, 1910. Relocated in the 1950s from Harbor Hill in Roslyn, New York. The four equestrian statues may be allegorical figures of major rivers, with the Native American rider representing the Mississippi River.