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He died on December 20, 1788 at the age of 52. He was buried in a side chapel of the Mission Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (Our Lady of the Assumption) in Arizpe, just south of today’s Mexico-Arizona border. Juan Bautista de Anza was a man of many facets. He was a soldier, explorer and diplomat.
Thus, it served as a landmark for sailors to turn into the San Francisco Bay when sailing the coast of California. In 1853, Joaquin Moraga and two others sold the area now known as Canyon for $4,000 to Elam Brown, who was a developer and the founder of Lafayette. Joaquin Moraga sold land to John Courter, who established a general store.
Julie is thrilled to be working at JM as the library media specialist. She's lived in Moraga for over 20 years and has two sons in college. Julie has a B.A. in English from UCLA, and an MBA from Santa Clara University. After college, she taught high school English for the Peace Corps for two years. She also worked as a investment analyst for ...
Moraga, Jose Joaquin - (August 22, 1745–1785) was an early explorer to Alta California. Moraga is also known as the founder of El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe, later known as San Jose, California. He is credited with building the Presidio of San Francisco after the site was selected by Juan Bautista de Anza in 1776.
The Rancho was a land grant of the 13,316 acres, given to Joaquin Moraga and his cousin, Juan Bernal, by the Mexican government in 1841. Moraga was the grandson of Jose Joaquin Moraga, who led a number of expeditions to the San Francisco Bay area, and who is most noted as the founder of the San Francisco Presidio and Mission.
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Joaquin Moraga was the grandson of Joseph Joaquin Moraga (b. 1745) an early Spanish explorer in California who founded the Presidio in San Francisco, Mission Dolores, Mission Santa Clara, and the Pueblo of San Jose. In 1835, Joaquin Moraga and his cousin, Juan Bernal, received a land grant from the Mexican government including portions of ...
