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- The City of Moraga is named after the builder of the 1841 adobe on the knoll above Orinda’s Miramonte High School. It’s the oldest building in Contra Costa County. And looked every year of it in 1935. Joaquin de la Santisima Trinidad Moraga, who called the adobe home, was the third generation of one of California’s most notable pioneer families.
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The town of Moraga is named for José Joaquin de la Santissima Trinidad Moraga (1793-1855), a rancher. On 20 August 1835 Joaquin Moraga and his cousin Juan Bernal formally requested a land grant from the independent Mexican State of Alta California (Upper California).
Mar 31, 2011 · The City of Moraga is named after the builder of the 1841 adobe on the knoll above Orinda’s Miramonte High School. It’s the oldest building in Contra Costa County. And looked every year of it in 1935. Joaquin de la Santisima Trinidad Moraga, who called the adobe home, was the third generation of one of California’s most notable pioneer families.
José Joaquín de la Santísima Trinidad Moraga (22 August 1745 – 13 July 1785), usually simply known as José Joaquín Moraga, was a Spanish colonial expeditionary and soldier who founded San Jose, California, in 1777.
Many consider Moraga the “Founder of San Francisco”. In 1777, Moraga founded a second mission, Santa Clara Mission, and in 1778 founded the pueblo of San Jose. In 1781, his family joined him in Los Angeles and by 1785 Jose Joaquin Moraga had died at the age of 44. He is buried at Mission Dolores.
José Joaquin Moraga, also known as José Joaquín de la Santísima Trinidad Moraga, was second in command of the Anza expedition in 1776 from Sonora to Northern California. Moraga was responsible for helping to find locations for the San Francisco Presidio and Mission Delores.
Jose's son, Gabriel Antonio Moraga, served in the army in California for 40 years, and it was Gabriel's fifth son, Jose Joaquin de la Santisima Trinidad Moraga, who was to become the grantee of the vast Moraga Rancho and the first settler in the Moraga Valley.
Jun 30, 2011 · The adobe of his grandson, Joaquin de la Santisima Trinidad Moraga, is the oldest building in Contra Costa County and is the city’s namesake although it’s now in present-day Orinda. Jose Joaquin’s son, Gabriel, is well known to the Central Valley. If not, he should be.
