LAST -- Remaining Building of the Santa Cruz Mission - Santa Cruz, CA
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The Neary-Rodriguez Adobe is the last remaining building of the original Santa Cruz Mission. The other buildings, including the original mission, were destroyed when the Fort Tejon Earthquake occurred in 1857.
Waymark Code: WMN13R
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/05/2014
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The plaque is at the end of School Street in the Mission Plaza Park.
The plaque says, "Misión La Exaltación de la Santa Cruz, the 12th Franciscan mission, was consecrated by Father Fermín Lasuen in August 1791. In 1793 the adobe church was built where the Holy Cross Catholic Church is now located. The mission was damaged by several earthquakes and finally collapsed in 1857. Plaza Park is located at the center of the mission complex which contained 32 buildings at the time of its secularization in 1834; the last building remains on School Street."