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Despite its name, Mission San Jose is not in the nearby city of San Jose but in Fremont, California.
Waymark Code: WMNJNX
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 03/24/2015
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Wikipedia (
visit link) informs us:
"Mission San José is a Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California. 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 into the city when it was incorporated in 1957.
The Mission entered a long period of gradual decline after secularization in 1834, though numerous restoration efforts in the intervening periods have reconstructed many of the original structures. The old mission church remains in use as a chapel of Saint Joseph Catholic Church, a parish of the Diocese of Oakland. The museum also features a visitor center, museum, and slide show telling the history of the mission."
The plaque reads:
"This tablet dedicated May 30, 1947 as part of ceremonies commemorating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Mission San Jose by Father Fermin Lasuen June 11, 1797.
Placed by the Historic Landmarks Committee of Native Sons and Native Daughters and Washington Parlor No. 169, Native Sons of the Golden West."