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Landmark information
- Location:
In front of Mission Church, University of Santa Clara, The Alameda and Lexington St, Santa Clara - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
5/1/1996 - Date Most Recently Visited:
9/3/2016 - GPS Coordinates:
N 37 20.970, W 121 56.475
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Mission Santa Clara
Santa Clara, the first California mission to honor a woman, Clare of Assisi, as its patron saint, was founded nearby on the Guadalupe River on January 12, 1777. It once had the largest indian population of any California mission. Floods and earthquake led to successive relocations. Its fifth church was dedicated on this site in 1825. In 1851 Santa Clara College was established in the old mission buildings.