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You are invited to the Peralta
Adobe in Downtown San José, California and the Presidio of San Francisco
For dates, see the calendar at:
History
San José
and the Presidio
of San Francisco
Did you miss the 2017 celebration of the founding of San José?
Want to see pictures? Click above to see larger photos.
Scroll down to learn more about the Californios,
the Peralto Adobe-Fallon House, and San José history.
Luis María Peralta Adobe
View a map for the Peralta Adobe-Fallon House Historic Site
(175 West Saint John St. San José, CA).
What it's all about
Ceremonies will commemorate the founding of San José on November
29th 1777 and the Founding of the Presidio of San Francisco on June
27, 1776.
Background and history
Near what is today the airport, a gathering of 15 men and 51 women
and children started a settlement that they called El Pueblo San
José de Guadalupe, the first purely civilian non- American Indian
settlement in California. San José was thus founded on Nov. 29,
1777.
The settlers, with their families, set out from the Presidio
of San Francisco on the seventh day of November, 1777, accompanied
by the lieutenant of the 1775-1776 Juan
Bautista de Anza expedition, Josef Joaquin Moraga. In the Spring
of 1776, Anza, Padre Pedro Font, Lt. Moraga, and a small group of
Spanish soldiers had explored the area north of Monterey, including
Santa Clara County, on their way to choose the sites for the Mission
and Presidio in San Francisco. Lt. Moraga came through Santa
Clara County again in June of 1776 with settlers (called pobladores)
on their way from Monterey to San Francisco to found the Presidio.
In November of 1777, he and some of those same settlers founded
the Pueblo of San José near the Guadalupe River. They were all citizens
of the Spanish empire, but most were of mixed American Indian, African,
and Hispanic ancestry. They later came to call themselves Californios.
Arriving in San José in early November, Moraga gave the pobladores
possession in the name of his Majesty King Carlos III of Spain,
marking out for them the plaza for the houses and distributing the
house-lots among them. He measured off for each one a piece of land
for planting a Fanega (7 acres for 1.6 bushels) of corn, and for
beans and other vegetables. They immediately set to work to build
the houses of palisades covered with clay, with flat roofs, and,
when these were finished, each began to clear and plough his piece
of ground for the planting of corn and beans. They also proceeded
to build a dam to take the water from the Guadalupe River. It is
thus that San José began in an area already occupied for thousands
of years by the native Ohlone peoples. Their village in the area
was called Tamien, and the coming of the Spanish, and the founding
of the Mission Santa Clara in January of 1777, marked the beginning
of the end of their way of life. Ohlone and Californio descendants
are still around today. Each year, there are commemorations in San
José and San Francisco that allow people today to come together
to look back on those days gone by.
Greg Smestad and Mayor Chuck Reed
at the 2007 San Jose Birthday Celebration
Plaque at Peralta Adobe
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Lucille Corcel, descendant of San José founders and
past president of Los Californianos, bringing the
commemorative floral display to the 2007 event
The floor, walls and oven at the Peralta were restored September
2008 via an Adobe & Straw Bale Construction Workshop taught by Bill
and Athena Steen, internationally respected adobe and staw bale
builders and educators.
Peralta Adobe outdoor oven
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PDF Files related to these events
Media
Alert
Names of
the founding families
Peralta Adobe Fact
Sheet
Santa
Clara County - Rich in History and Culture
Pueblo San José
map
News and Background
Luís María Peralta Adobe Timeline
Luís María Peralta Adobe Virtual Tour
Blog post by Damian Bacich, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Spanish
San José: City’s 239th birthday celebrated at San Pedro Square (2016)
History San José on Facebook
San José Office of Cultural Affairs
Learn more about Sol
Ideas Technology Development and early California history.
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