Mission Santa Cruz - San Gabriel, CA - Exact Replicas on Waymarking.com

This replica is one of several in a courtyard at Mission San Gabriel Arcangel. The area above the replicas is covered and a gate prevents visitors from touching the reproductions...but otherwise they are exposed the elements.
This one depicts Mission Santa Cruz. It appears to be made of painted wood but no sign indicates the artist or date.

Wikipedia (visit link) informs us:

"Mission Santa Cruz was a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order in present-day Santa Cruz, California. The mission was founded in 1791 and named for the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, adopting the name given to a nearby creek by the missionary priest Juan Crespi, who accompanied the explorer Gaspar de Portolá when he camped on the banks of the San Lorenzo River on October 17, 1769, and erected a wooden cross.

As with the other California missions, Mission Santa Cruz served as a site for ecclesiastical conversion of natives, first the Ohlone, the original inhabitants of the region, and later the Yokuts from the east.[citation needed] The settlement was the site of the first autopsy in Alta California."

Where is original located?: Santa Cruz, CA Where is this replica located?: San Gabriel, CA Who created the original?: Franciscan Missionaries Internet Link about Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Santa_Cruz Year Original was Created (approx. ok): 1889

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