Mission Santa Cruz
The one-third size Mission Santa Cruz replica
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| Location | 126 High St Santa Cruz, California 95060 |
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| Coordinates | 36°58′41.22″N 122°1′45.83″W / 36.9781167°N 122.0293972°WCoordinates: 36°58′41.22″N 122°1′45.83″W / 36.9781167°N 122.0293972°W |
| Name as founded | La Misión de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz |
| English translation | The Mission of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross |
| Patron | The Exaltation of the Cross |
| Nickname(s) | "The Hard-luck Mission" |
| Founding date | August 28, 1791 |
| Founding priest(s) | Father Fermín Lasuén |
| Founding Order | Twelfth |
| Military district | Twelfth |
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Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s) |
Awaswas / Ohlone, Yokuts Costeño |
| Native place name(s) | Uypi |
| Baptisms | 2,765 |
| Marriages | 860 |
| Burials | 2,120 |
| Secularized | 1,834 |
| Governing body | Catholic Diocese of Monterey |
| Current use | Chapel and Museum |
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Mission Hill Area Historic District
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| Location | Mission Street |
| Coordinates | 36°58′39″N 122°1′43″W / 36.97750°N 122.02861°W |
| Area | 38 acres (15 ha) |
| Architectural style | Spanish Colonial, Stick-Eastlake-Queen Anne—Victorian |
| NRHP Reference # | 76000530 |
| Added to NRHP | May 17, 1976 |
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Neary-Rodriguez Adobe
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| Location | 130-134 School St. Santa Cruz, California |
| NRHP Reference # | 75000484 |
| Added to NRHP | February 24, 1975 |
Mission Santa Cruz was a Spanish mission founded by the Franciscan order in present-day Santa Cruz, California. The mission was founded in 1791 and named for the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, adopting the name given to a nearby creek by the missionary priest Juan Crespi, who accompanied the explorer Gaspar de Portolá when he camped on the banks of the San Lorenzo River on October 17, 1769.
As with the other California missions, Mission Santa Cruz served as a site for ecclesiastical conversion of natives, first the Ohlone, the original inhabitants of the region, and later the Yokuts from the east. The settlement was the site of the first autopsy in Alta California.
The current Holy Cross Church was built on the site of the original mission church in 1889, and it remains an active parish of the Diocese of Monterey. A section of stone foundation wall from one of the mission buildings and a few old headstones from the mission cemetery can be found directly behind the present Holy Cross Church. A reduced-scale "replica" chapel was built near the mission site in the 1930s and functions as a chapel of Holy Cross Church. Today's Plaza Park occupies the same location as the original plaza, at the center of the former mission complex. The complex at one time included as many as 32 buildings. The only surviving mission building, a dormitory for native acolytes, has been restored to its original appearance and functions as a museum of the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park.
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