FIRST -- Overland Route to California, Mission San Gabriel the Archangel, San Gabriel CA
N 34° 05.817 W 118° 06.400
11S E 397915 N 3773458
A small bronze plaque commemorates a big event in California history inside Mission San Gabriel the Archangel
Waymark Code: WMQWCC
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/05/2016
Views: 3
This small bronze plaque greets you are you exit the gift shop to enter the mission compound through a small gate. It reads:
"DE ANZA TRAIL
1774
The first Overland Route California
de Anza Trail County Caballeros – 1942"
Next to it is a larger sign placed by the Claretian Fathers with more detail about howthis route was later used to settle the state of California:
The sign reads as follows:
"OVERLAND EMIGRATION EXPEDITION
In January 1776, San Gabriel Mission was host to Trail Blazer Col. Juan Bautista de Anza and over 200 colonist and soldiers, in route from Sonora, Mexico, to become the first residents of San Francisco. This was the first Overland emigration into Upper Alta California.
Father Font, Diarist, said of San Gabriel, “On our arrival, they killed four sheep, whose meat was good. I do not remember having eaten mutton more fat and tender, also chicken. All of us love San Gabriel Mission, and their cows that give rich milk from which cheese and butter was made.” As Father Paterno says, “It is like the Promised Land.”
Bievenidos
Claretian Missionary Fathers
1908- Present"
FIRST - Classification Variable: Item or Event
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1774
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