#0433 First Site of El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe

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#0433 First Site of El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe

Site information:

Front parking lot planter, City Hall, 151 W Mission St, San Jose

Nothing remains of this site, as far as I know.

37.350591,-121.903212

Plaque information:

State plaque

Plaque text:

First Site of El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe

Within a year after the opening of the first overland route from Mexico to Alta California, Governor Filipe de Neve authorized the establishment of the first civil settlement in the state on lands including and surrounding the present Civic Center. Lieutenant Jose Joaquin Moraga, with 14 settlers and their families arrived in the Santa Clara Valley to found El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe on November 29, 1777.

Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the San Jose Historic Landmarks Commission, November 29, 1977.

Registered 3/16/1949

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