Editing Mission Santa Cruz

{{Short description|18th-century Spanish Catholic mission in California, US}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2019}}
{{Infobox Missions
|image                     = MissionSantaCruzCalifornia.jpg
|caption                   = The Mission Santa Cruz chapel replica
|name                      = Mission Santa Cruz
|location                  = 130 Emmett St<br/>[[Santa Cruz, California]] 95060
|originalname              = ''La Misión de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz''
|translation               = The Mission of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
|namesake                  = The [[Exaltation of the Cross]]<ref name="krell219"/>
|nickname                  = "The Hard-luck Mission"<ref>Ruscin, p. 105</ref>
|founded                   = August 28, 1791<ref name="yenne112"/>
|foundedby                 = Father [[Fermín Lasuén|Fermín Francisco de Lasuén]]<ref name="ruscin196"/>
|foundingorder             = Twelfth<ref name="krell219"/>
|militarydistrict          = Fourth<ref name="forbes">Forbes, p. 202</ref>
|nativetribe               = [[Awaswas]], [[Mutsun]], [[Yokuts]]<br/>''Costeño''
|placename                 = ''Aulintak''
|baptisms                  = 2,765<ref name="Engelhardt"> Engelhardt, Z. ''Missions and Missionaries of California'', Volume 4, page 529</ref>
|marriages                 = 860<ref name="Engelhardt"/>
|burials                   = 2,120<ref name="Engelhardt"/>
|secularized               = 1834<ref name="krell219">Krell, p. 219</ref>
|returned                  = 1859
|owner                     = [[California State Parks|California Department of Parks and Recreation]]; [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California|Diocese of Monterey]]
|currentuse                = Santa Cruz Mission Adobe museum; Parish chapel
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|locmapin                  = 
|map_caption               = Location in Sant Cruz
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|designation2              = California
|designation2_number       = [https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail/342 #342]
|website                   = {{Official URL}}

{{Infobox NRHP
| name                    = Mission Hill Area Historic District
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| nocat                   = yes
| embed                   = yes
| location                = Mission Street
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| locmapin                = California
| architect               = 
| architecture            = [[Spanish Colonial architecture|Spanish Colonial]], [[Stick-Eastlake]]-[[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne]]—[[Victorian architecture|Victorian]]
| added                   = May 17, 1976
| area                    = {{convert|38|acre}}
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'''Mission Santa Cruz''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''La Misión de la Exaltación de la Santa Cruz'', lit. '''The Mission of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross''') is a [[replica]] [[Spanish missions in California|Spanish Californian mission]] in [[Santa Cruz, California]]. Located on the  [[San Lorenzo River]] floodplain<ref>{{cite book |last= Mayer |first= Melanie J. |date=2019 |title=The Mission Santa Cruz Mystery |location=Santa Cruz, California |publisher=Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks |page=85-87 |isbn=978-0-9721165-2-7}}</ref> below what would later be named Mission Hill, the mission was founded on August 28, 1791, by Father [[Fermín Francisco de Lasuén]], the successor to Father [[Junipero Serra]]. The mission was dedicated that same year but, in the winter rainy season, the river overflowed its banks and flooded the mission compound. The mission was then relocated to the top of Mission Hill.

After earthquake damage and years of neglect, this second mission fell into disrepair, and much of it, though not all, was removed to accommodate the construction of the Holy Cross Church in 1889. A scaled-down replica was constructed in the 1930s, which today functions as a historical monument and [[chapel]] for the parish.

Near the replica chapel stands the one surviving Mission Santa Cruz Mission building, an adobe structure built between 1822 and 1824. This adobe building served as housing for Indigenous families who, after [[Mission Indians|being converted to Catholicism]], lived and worked at the Mission. It is the oldest surviving structure in [[Santa Cruz County, California|Santa Cruz County]] and the best preserved Native American residence at any of the [[Alta California]] missions. It is now part of [[Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park]].

== History ==
[[File:Mission Santa Cruz (Léon Trousset, 1876).jpg|thumb|left|Mission Santa Cruz, 1876]]

The outpost was originally established near the Uypi village of ''Aulintak'', located near the mouth of the [[San Lorenzo River]], on August 28, 1791.<ref name="historicmarker">{{cite web |url=http://www.stoppingpoints.com/california/sights.cgi?marker=Site+of+Mission+Santa+Cruz&num=342&cnty=Santa+Cruz |title=Site of Mission Santa Cruz, California State Historical Marker |author=California State Historical Resources Commission tacos |access-date=March 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716145906/http://www.stoppingpoints.com/california/sights.cgi?marker=Site+of+Mission+Santa+Cruz&num=342&cnty=Santa+Cruz |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> There the Franciscan brothers erected a tent for worship to bring Christianity to the [[Awaswas]] people. The settlement was 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 [[San Lorenzo River]] on [[Timeline of the Portolá expedition|October 17, 1769]].<ref name="yenne112">Yenne, p. 112</ref>

The original mission was a small structure dedicated on September 25, 1791. It was located on the bottom of what would become Mission Hill, near what is today the intersection of River and North Pacific Streets, on the San Lorenzo River's flood plains. The mission was flooded as the river swelled with the rains that winter. Over the next three years until 1793, the padres rebuilt the mission on the hill overlooking the river.

As with the other California missions, Mission Santa Cruz served as a site for ecclesiastical conversion of natives, first the {{ill|Amah Mutsun|qid=Q111585476}} people,<ref name="Amah mutsun">{{cite web |url=http://amahmutsun.org/history |title=Amah Mutsun Tribal Band History |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Amah Mutsun Tribal Band |access-date=August 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809184020/http://amahmutsun.org/history |archive-date=August 9, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> the original inhabitants of the region (called ''Costeño'' by the Spaniards, and later known as the "[[Ohlone]]"). Later, [[Yokuts people]] were brought from the east.<ref name="SHP Santa Cruz">{{cite web |url=https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/548/files/SantaCruzMissionSHPFinalWebLayout012116.pdf |title=Santa Cruz Mission State Historical Park |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=California Department of Parks and Recreation |access-date=August 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215142927/http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/548/files/SantaCruzMissionSHPFinalWebLayout012116.pdf |archive-date=February 15, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> The settlement was the site of the first [[autopsy]] in Alta California.<ref name="ruscin196">Ruscin, p. 196</ref>

It was one of the smaller missions, in the fourth military district under protection of the [[Presidio of San Francisco]].<ref name="forbes"/>

In 1797, the secular ''pueblo'' (town) of [[Branciforte]] was founded across the [[San Lorenzo River]] to the east of Mission Santa Cruz. The mission padres did not welcome the location of the pueblo so close to the mission, and accused the Branciforte settlers of [[gambling]], [[smuggling]] and tempting the native acolytes to desert the mission.

On October 12, 1812, Father Andrés Quintana was strangled to death by mission neophytes, angry over his use of a metal-tipped whip in the punishment of laborers, Native Americans, and Native children.<ref name="narrative of lorenzo asisara">{{cite journal |last1=Castillo |first1=Edward D. |title=The Assassination of Padre Andrés Quintana by the Indians of Mission Santa Cruz in 1812: The Narrative of Lorenzo Asisara |journal=California History |year=1989 |volume=68 |issue=3 |pages=116–125 |doi=10.2307/25462397 |jstor=25462397}}</ref>

In 1818, the Mission received advance warning of an attack by the [[United Provinces of South America|Argentine]] [[Commerce raiding|corsair]] (simply a [[Piracy|pirate]], from the Spanish point of view) [[Hippolyte de Bouchard|Hipólito Bouchard]] and was evacuated.<ref>There is a great contrast between the legacy of Bouchard in Argentina versus his reputation in the United States. In Buenos Aires, Bouchard is honored as a brave patriot, while in California he is most often remembered as a pirate, rather than a privateer. See [[Hippolyte de Bouchard#California and Central America|Hippolyte de Bouchard]].</ref> The citizens of Branciforte, several of whom were retired soldiers, were asked to protect the Mission's valuables; instead, they were later accused (by the priests) of [[stealing]]. The people from the mission then decided to flee the mission, and they later arrived in a new mission.

One of the only surviving first-person descriptions by a [[Indigenous peoples of California|native Californian]] of life in a mission was given in an interview by Lorenzo Asisara<ref>[https://www.learner.org/series/american-passages-a-literary-survey/slavery-and-freedom/lorenzo-asisara-b-1819/ Lorenzo Asisara]</ref> in 1877. Asisara was born at Mission Santa Cruz in 1819. His father was one of the neophytes involved in the Quintana killing, and Asisara repeated the story his father had told him about those events.

== Decline ==
[[File:Holy Cross Church at Santa Cruz circa 1900 Keystone-Mast.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Holy Cross Church ({{Circa|1900}})]]
The front wall of the adobe mission, built in 1794, was destroyed by the [[1857 Fort Tejon earthquake]]. A wooden facade was added and the structure converted to other uses. A new wooden church was built next door in 1858.<ref>http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/23/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101131706/http://www.santacruzpl.org/history/articles/23/ |date=January 1, 2012 }} Kimbro, Edna E. "Construction Chronology of the Site of Holy Cross Church". Santa Cruz Public Library</ref> In 1889, the current [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic Revival]]-style Holy Cross Church was built over (in the same orientation) part of the original sanctuary and cemetery.<ref>Chesley, Joan "Digging into the past at Holy Cross Church". The Observer, Vol. 25 # 8, 1993</ref> The cemetery wall was defined in 1993 <ref>{{Cite news|last=Alvarado|first=Emilio|date=9 July 1993|title=Working to save Mission Treasures|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel}}</ref><ref>Edwards, R., C. Simpson Smith & R.P..Hampson, "Historical Resources Investigations at Holy Cross Church, Santa Cruz, California, 1999 (on file, Northwest Information Center, Sonoma State University)</ref> and developed as a memorial and native plant garden.

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 [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California|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 Historic Park and District|Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park]].

At the same time, the mission cemetery was excavated and the remains moved to a mass grave at Old Holy Cross Cemetery, a few miles to the east. In recent years, a group of local volunteers worked to restore the old cemetery, and to identify the mission gravesite and those whose remains were moved there. A memorial was dedicated in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Masters |first1=Ryan |title=Thousands buried in mass, unmarked Live Oak grave honored with memorial |url=http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/social-affairs/20161216/thousands-buried-in-mass-unmarked-live-oak-grave-honored-with-memorial |newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel |access-date=December 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218132941/http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/social-affairs/20161216/thousands-buried-in-mass-unmarked-live-oak-grave-honored-with-memorial |archive-date=December 18, 2016 |url-status=live |date=December 16, 2016}}</ref>

The only original Mission building left is a long multi-room building which at one time housed local ''[[Yokuts]]'' and ''[[Ohlone]]'' Native American families. The original building is located at 144 School Street and can be toured during operating hours.<ref>[http://www.thatsmypark.org/cp-parks-beaches/santa-cruz-mission-state-historic-park/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130325061641/http://www.thatsmypark.org/cp-parks-beaches/santa-cruz-mission-state-historic-park/|date=March 25, 2013}} Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks Website</ref> There is also a protected remnant of the mission church foundation wall behind the current Holy Cross Church. The parish address is 126 High Street. The road leading to the mission from the west is called Mission Street, which is also part of [[California State Route 1]].

In 1931, Gladys Sullivan Doyle proposed to construct a reduced-size replica of the original chapel. She contributed all of the construction costs, on the condition that she be allowed to be buried inside. Her grave can be viewed in a small side room. Since there were no surviving photographs or drawings of the original structure, design of the replica chapel was adapted from an 1876 (19 years after the collapse of the building's front half) painting by the French painter [[Léon Trousset]].<ref>[http://leontrousset.com/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110170434/http://leontrousset.com/|date=January 10, 2016}} Leon Trousset.com</ref> The original painting hangs in the nave of the chapel.

[[File:Mission Santa Cruz.jpg|thumb|right|Inside the mission chapel replica]]

The concrete construction was done by parishioner Tranquilino Costella, an Italian immigrant, whose contractor stamp is still seen in the sidewalk in front of the mission. The small replica chapel is mainly used for private services, daily Masses (M-F), and Morning Prayer on Saturday. An adjoining room functions as a gift shop. A stone fountain from the original mission complex stands in the garden behind the gift shop.

== Santa Cruz Mission Historic Park and District ==
The only surviving original adobe mission building, a dormitory for Native American residents, has been restored as part of the Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park as the Neary-Rodriguez Adobe.<ref name="park">{{cite web |title=Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park |work=California State Parks official web site |url=http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=548 |access-date=May 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522060114/http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=548 |archive-date=May 22, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Santa Cruz Mission is designated [[California Historical Landmark]] number 342.<ref>{{cite web |title=Santa Cruz County |work=California Historical Landmark web site |publisher=California Office of Historic Preservation |url=http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=21523 |access-date=May 23, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527210930/http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=21523 |archive-date=May 27, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref>
The Neary-Rodriguez Adobe was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Cruz County, California]] as site number 75000484 on February 24, 1975,
and the Mission Hill Area as a [[Historic district (United States)|United States Historic District]] as site number 76000530 on May 17, 1976.<ref name="nris" />

==Unidentified adobe foundations==
{{main|Lost Adobe}}
The stone foundations of an unidentified adobe on the east edge of Mission Hill in Santa Cruz was first discovered in 1978.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Neubauer|first=Bill|date=19 May 1978|title=Construction still suspended for archaeological dig|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Koch|first=Margaret|date=21 May 1978|title=Lost Chapel of SC Mission Discovered?|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel}}</ref> Prior to any excavations an extensive archival research program was carried out.<ref>Kimbro, Edna E., Mary Ellen Ryan and Robert H. Jackson, with Randall T. Milliken, and Norman Neuerburg. "Restoration Research, Santa Cruz Mission Adobe." Santa Cruz Mission State Historical Park 1985. (on file California State Parks, Santa Cruz District).</ref> After no mention was found in the written record, the foundations were given the name the [[Santa Cruz Mission's "Lost Adobe"|"Lost Adobe"]]. Archaeological excavations (from 1981 to 1984)<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Allen|first=Rebecca|date=1998|title=Native Americans at Mission Santa Cruz, 1791-1834|journal=Perspectives in California Archaeology|volume=5|pages=31}}</ref> indicated the presence of  18+ rooms structural foundations extending west toward the original church and cemetery. Artifacts found were a diverse collection of Spanish [[Spanish missions in California|Mission Era]]/ Mexican Republic materials including glass beads, [[Majolica]] ceramic fragments and phoenix buttons.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Strong|first=Emory|date=1975|title=The Enigma of the Phoenix Button|journal=Historical Archaeology|volume= 9|pages=74–80|doi=10.1007/BF03373432|s2cid=163848079}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sprague|first=Roderic|date=1998|title=The Literature and locations of the Phoenix Button|journal=Historical Archaeology|volume= 32|issue=2|pages=56–77|doi=10.1007/BF03374251|s2cid=163979432|doi-access=free}}</ref> These findings suggest that the structure was used to house [[Mission Indians|the neophyte community]] of ''[[Yokuts]]'' and ''[[Ohlone]]'' families living at the Mission in the 1820s and 1830s. The Lost Adobe collapsed during the 19th century and no remnants remain. The area is on private property and visitors are not allowed.

== Mission Hill train tunnel ==
Mission Santa Cruz has a hidden single track gated railroad tunnel running under it.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mobileranger.com/santacruz/the-yesteryear-of-mission-hill-tunnel/ |title=Yesteryear of Mission Hill Tunnel |access-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130145445/http://www.mobileranger.com/santacruz/the-yesteryear-of-mission-hill-tunnel/ |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Railroad train service used to connect Oakland to Santa Cruz with a train going down the middle of Pacific Avenue on the way to the wharf.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.abandonedrails.com/South_Pacific_Coast_Railroad |title=South Pacific Coast Railroad History |access-date=January 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204404/http://www.abandonedrails.com/South_Pacific_Coast_Railroad |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1876 [[South Pacific Coast Railroad]] built a railroad tunnel under Mission Santa Cruz to reroute train traffic out of the busy downtown corridor.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.santacruztrains.com/2012/06/mission-hill-tunnel-spc-8.html |title=Mission Hill Tunnel – Santa Cruz Trains |access-date=January 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204201/http://www.santacruztrains.com/2012/06/mission-hill-tunnel-spc-8.html |archive-date=January 30, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The entrance can be found at the end of Amat Street with the tunnel going under the church's parking lot and Emmett Street, and emerging at Chestnut Street. This is still an active rail line for [[Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway]] connecting Santa Cruz with Felton.

== See also ==
* [[Spanish missions in California]]
* [[List of Spanish missions in California]]
* [[USNS Mission Santa Cruz (AO-133)|USNS ''Mission Santa Cruz'' (AO-133)]] – a [[Mission Buenaventura-class transport oiler|''Mission Buenaventura''-class transport oiler]] built during [[World War II]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
* {{cite book
| author    = Engelhardt, Z.
| year      = 1915
| title     = The Missions and Missionaries of California, Volume 4
| location  = Santa Barbara, Calif
| publisher = Mission Santa Barbara
| url       = https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=LcAUAAAAYAAJ
}}
* {{cite book
| author    = Forbes, Alexander
| year      = 1839
| title     = California: A History of Upper and Lower California
| location  = Cornhill, London
| publisher = [[Smith, Elder and Co.|Smith, Elder and Co]] <!-- prevent double period -->
| url       = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_NH4FAAAAQAAJ
}}
* {{cite book
| author    = Jones, Terry L. and Kathryn A. Klar (eds.)
| year      = 2007
| title     = California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity
| publisher = Altimira Press, Landham, MD
| isbn      = 978-0-7591-0872-1
}}
* {{cite book
| editor    = Krell, Dorothy
| year      = 1979
| title     = The California Missions: A Pictorial History
| publisher = Sunset Publishing Corporation, Menlo Park, CA
| isbn      = 978-0-376-05172-1
}}
* {{cite book
| author    = Leffingwell, Randy
| year      = 2005
| title     = California Missions and Presidios: The History & Beauty of the Spanish Missions
| publisher = Voyageur Press, Inc., Stillwater, MN
| isbn      = 978-0-89658-492-1
}}
* {{cite book
| author    = Levy, Richard.
| editor    = William C. Sturtevant, and Robert F. Heizer
| year      = 1978
| title     = Handbook of North American Indians
| volume    = 8 (California)
| publisher = Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
| isbn      = 978-0-16-004578-3
| pages     = 486
}}
* {{cite book
| author    = Milliken, Randall
| year      = 1995
| title     = A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Tribal Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area 1769–1910
| publisher = Ballena Press Publication, Menlo Park, CA
| isbn      = 978-0-87919-132-0
}}
* {{cite book
| editor      = Paddison, Joshua
| year      = 1999
| title      = A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush
| publisher      = Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA
| isbn      = 978-1-890771-13-3
| url-access      = registration
| url      = https://archive.org/details/worldtransformed00josh
}}
* {{cite book
| author    = Ruscin, Terry
| year      = 1999
| title     = Mission Memoirs
| location  = San Diego
| publisher = [[Sunbelt Publications]]
| isbn      = 978-0-932653-30-7
}}
* {{cite book
| author = Yenne, Bill
| year      = 2004
| title     = The Missions of California
| publisher = Thunder Bay Press, San Diego, CA
| isbn      = 978-1-59223-319-9
}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Mission Santa Cruz}}
* [http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=548 Official Santa Cruz Mission State Historic Park website]
* [http://www.holycrosssantacruz.com/ Official parish website] built on the site of the original mission church
* [http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/browse/keyword/Mission+%22Santa+Cruz%22 Early photographs, sketches, land surveys of Mission Santa Cruz], via Calisphere, California Digital Library
* {{cite web |last=Howser |first=Huell |title=California Missions (106) |url=http://blogs.chapman.edu/huell-howser-archives/2000/12/08/california-missions-california-missions-106/ |work=California Missions |publisher=[[Chapman University]] Huell Howser Archive |author-link=Huell Howser |date=December 8, 2000}}
* U.S. Library of Congress: 20 images, [https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ca1008.photos/?sp=1&st=gallery "Mission Santa Cruz, Emmet & School Streets, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, CA"]

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