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Mission Santa Clara. / 37.3493; -121.9415. Mission Santa Clara de Asís (Spanish: Misión Santa Clara de Asís) is a Spanish mission in the city of Santa Clara, California. The mission, which was the eighth in California, was founded on January 12, 1777, by the Franciscans. Named for Saint Clare of Assisi, who founded the order of the Poor ...
Serves as a parish church within Santa Clara University. Mission Santa Cruz: 1791 Santa Cruz: Nonextant. A reconstruction of the original mission was completed in the 1930s, which serves as a parish church and museum. Mission San Juan Bautista: 1797 San Juan Bautista
Mission Santa Clara de Asís: 7,711 baptisms (3,177 children) 927 people in 1790, 1,464 in 1827. 150 people remaining in 1834: Very sharp decline in the native population from 1827 to 1834. "The death rate at the mission was very high." 18 Mission San José: 6,737 baptisms total 1,754 people in 1820. 5,109 deaths total: 19
Mission College (Mission or MC) is a public community college in Santa Clara, California. It is part of the West Valley–Mission Community College District. The land the college is on was bought between 1966 and 1967. Mission College opened for its first year in 1975. In 1979 it had grown to "3,500 students, 8 administrators, and 73 instructors".
For example, the widest inside dimensions of any of the mission buildings (at San Carlos, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz) is 29 feet (8.8 m): the narrowest, at Mission Soledad, spans 16.2 feet (4.9 m). The longest structure, at Mission Santa Barbara, stretches 162.5 feet (49.5 m).
The Tamyen (Tamien, Thamien) people are associated with the original site of Mission Santa Clara (Mission Santa Clara de Thamien) on the Guadalupe River, 1777. The entire Santa Clara Valley was populated with dozens of Tamien speaking villages, several on Coyote Creek. See also. Ohlone tribes and villages in Santa Clara Valley; Namesakes:
Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. [5] The university's campus surrounds the historic Mission Santa Clara de Asís which traces its founding to 1777.
Mission San José is a Spanish mission located in the present-day city of Fremont, California, United States. 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 ...