| Uvas
Creek Park Preserve: This regional park in the City of
Gilroy encompasses an area through which the expedition passed. The park
plans include an interpretive stop for the Anza Trail as well as interpretation
of the natural and cultural history of the area.
Chitactac–Adams
Heritage County Park: Near Uvas Creek at the intersection of
Burchell Road and Watsonville Road, this park commemorates an Ohlone village.
Chitactac is the name of the principal village of the Amah tribe near Gilroy.
Anza expedition journals were used to identify the location.
Expedition Camp
#92: The site of the March 24, 1776 encampment is located in
Silvera Park along Llagas Creek near Watsonville Road and Santa Teresa
Boulevard. As yet undeveloped, the park is the site of one of the reenactment
plaques.
Rancho Santa Teresa
Historic District/Santa Teresa County Park: Bernal Adobe Site, Santa Teresa
Spring and Shrine, Bernal-Joice Ranch: Anza poblador
(expedition member), José Joaquín Bernal passed
through this site in 1776 as the Anza group headed for San Francisco Bay.
He returned in 1826 to establish Rancho Santa Teresa and construct four
to six adobes. Among other resources, the site contains a Muwekma Ohlone
burial ground, the Bernal Adobe site, Bear Tree, and Santa Teresa Spring.
The site is registered with the state as a certified archeological site
#SCL-125.
Expedition
Camp #93: Font notes the camp on March 25, 1776, at arroyo of
San Joseph Cupertino. The plaque for CRHL No. 800 is located at Monte Vista
High School, west parking lot, 21840 McClellan Road, Cupertino. Several
members of the volunteer Anza Trail county task force support the location
of the actual campsite along Calabasas Creek in the vicinity of what is
now DeAnza Boulevard and Prospect Road.
McClellan
Ranch Park/Stevens Creek: Located at 22221 McClellan Road, this
park is within the historic corridor. Plans are underway to restore the
Stevens Creek riparian corridor with native plants as it may have been
in 1776. A reenactment marker exists at the site.
Rancho
San Antonio County Park: Located on Cristo Rey Drive in Cupertino,
a portion of this park encompasses the historic trail corridor. It was
from a prominent knoll near the entry of this park that both Font and Anza
said they could see San Francisco Bay. The knoll was recently dedicated
as permanent public open space by the Diocese of San José . Stevens
Creek Trail is recognized in the City of Cupertino General Plan as having
significance relating the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail.
El
Camino Real: Commemorated as the road between the missions,
this road is the route of the Anza expedition from El Monte Street in Mountain
View to El Palo Alto (see below).
El
Palo Alto: This "tall tree," a redwood measured by Father Font,
is located at the intersection of Alma Street and El Camino Real in Palo
Alto. Portolá had camped here on November 6, 1769.
Greer
House: Mrs. John Greer was a granddaughter of Ignacio Soto of
the Anza expeditions and the daughter of Rafael Soto, grantee of Rancho
Rinconada del Arroyo de San Francisquito. The house is located at 1517
Louisa Court, Palo Alto.
Rafael
Soto Home Site: Rafael Soto, son of Ygnacio Soto, a member of
the Anza expedition, built a home on this site in the early 1840s on his
Rancho
Rinconada del Arroyo de San Francisquito. It is located on the east
side of Middlefield Road just north of Oregon Avenue in Palo Alto.
Middlefield
Crossing: This crossing of San Francisquito Creek prior to the
1850s is located on Middlefield Road at San Francisquito Creek.
Expedition
Camp # 97: On March 30, 1776, Anza camped on the Guadalupe River
near the present–day site of Agnews State Hospital.
Mission
Santa Clara de Asís: The mission is located on the grounds
of the Santa Clara University, the Alameda, Santa Clara. Established in
1777 near the Guadalupe River, it was relocated in 1782 after several floods,
abandoned after the earthquake of 1822, and again relocated to the present
site. Trail interpretation should include all the sites. Ignacio Alviso,
an Anza expedition member (aged three in 1775), was majordomo after secularization.
The site is within the Muwekma–Ohlone traditional territory.
Mission
Santa Clara de Asís: The mission is located on the grounds
of the Santa Clara University, the Alameda, Santa Clara. Established in
1777 near the Guadalupe River, it was relocated in 1782 after several floods,
abandoned after the earthquake of 1822, and again relocated to the present
site. Trail interpretation should include all the sites. Ignacio Alviso,
an Anza expedition member (aged three in 1775), was majordomo after secularization.
The site is within the Muwekma–Ohlone traditional territory.
North of the University grounds
is the Pena Adobe at 3260 The Alameda, Santa Clara. Dating from the 1780s,
it is one of the oldest structures in the valley and was constructed as
quarters for married Indians at the Mission Santa Clara. it is the sole
survivor of the third mission compound dedicated in 1784. (CRHL No. 249)
Fernando
Berreyesa Adobe: Fernando’s father, José Reyes Berreyesa,
had been a soldier at San Francisco Presidio where his father, Nicolas,
came as a boy with Anza’s party. This privately owned adobe is located
at 373 Jefferson Street, Santa Clara.
First
Site of El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe: This
State Landmark Monument on the city’s Civic Center grounds, recognizes
the first site of the Pueblo which was named for the Virgin of Guadalupe,
the patron saint of the Anza Expedition of 1775–76. Lt. Jose Moraga arrived
in the Santa Clara Valley with 14 settlers and their families on November
29, 1777 to found this first civil settlement of California. The monument
is located at 801 North First Street, San José.
Luis
Maria Peralta Adobe: This pre–1800 adobe, one of the first houses
in the second plaza of the Pueblo of San José , is believed to be
built by José Manuel Gonzales, an Apache who accompanied the Anza
party. Luis Maria Peralta, also with his parents on the Anza trip, became
comisionado
(Commissioner)
[1807–1822] and lived at the adobe until he died in 1851. City Landmark
No. 1, located at 184 St.John Street in San José, is open for docent
tours only. The gardens and exterior are open to the public during regular
park hours. It is a certified site along the Anza Trail.
Plaza
de Caesar Chavez, formerly Plaza Park: The Plaza is circled
by South Market Street between San Fernando and San Carlos Streets in downtown
San José . Around 1797, the pobladores (settlers) moved to
higher ground to avoid the flooding Rió de Guadalupe. They
built adobes, gardens, and water channels around a central plaza, which
remain today as Plaza Park. It was, and still is, the geographic center
of San José . It was also the political center of norte California,
with its juzgado (court, city hall, and jail). Many of the Anza
party that retired from military service moved to San José to be
with their families and become ranchers. The earliest maps of San José
show this plaza ringed with a "who’s who" of Anza settlers.
Saint
Joseph Cathedral: This is the first non–mission church in California
and San José ’s oldest place of continual worship. San José
’s earliest residents grew weary of traveling to Mission Santa Clara for
services, so they built their own church. Built by pueblo residents in
1803, the first Saint Joseph church was a simple adobe structure. Most
of the contributors were from the Anza trek of 1776. The present cathedral
is the fourth Saint Joseph Church on this site, following fires and earthquakes
over the years. It is located at 90 South Market Street at San Fernando,
San José.
Mountain
View Shoreline Park: This city park is at the margin of San
Francisco Bay, within the historic corridor, and offers views similar to
those the expedition members would have seen.
Sunnyvale
Baylands County Park: Trails within this park offer experiences
of the natural environment similar to those of 1776.
José
Maria Alviso Adobe: This adobe was built in the 1830s
or 1840s by the son of Anza colonist Francisco Xavier Alviso and is located
on Piedmont Road in Milpitas.
Higuera Adobe:
This structure was built in the mid–1800s by Joseph Loreto Higuera, son
of Anza colonists Ygnacio Anastacio Higuera and María Micaela Bojórquez
who were married at San Xavier del Bac during the expedition. It is located
near Calero Creek in Milpitas.
Expedition Camp
# 103: This April 5, 1776, camp is located at the southern edge
of San Antonio Valley overlooking the watersheds of the East Fork of Coyote
Creek and Sulphur Springs near the northern boundary of Henry W. Coe State
Park. It is privately owned.
Henry W. Coe State
Park: East of Highway 101 at Morgan Hill, this 80,000+ acre
park contains about 15 miles of the historic route, a mid–day stop at Los
Cruceros, and a landscape which can still be recognized from the expedition
journals. The Los Cruceros stop has a reenactment plaque.
Gilroy Hot Springs:
This privately owned site is within the trail corridor.
Expedition Camp
#104: The April 6, 1776 camp is located at the confluence of
Coyote Creek and Cañada de los Osos, south of Gilroy Hot Springs
and near the county fire department facility at Roop and Cañada
Roads, east of Gilroy. |