Anza Expedition of 1776

r a y e B i v u n R i s u t o Lt. Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza, a b l o B a y Carquinez Strait S n n P e S a m r a Father Pedro Font, and a small a c S LONE TREE Delta Anza Trail group of settlers and soldiers jour- POINT Antioch/Oakley 80 WATERBIRD SAN PABLO BAY Rodeo Bay 160 neyed by horseback through what Point SHORELINE Pittsburg 4 MARTINEZ is now Alameda and Contra Costa POINT Hercules SHORELINE PINOLE CARQUINEZ Martinez Antioch Pinole STRAIT SHORELINE a/DeAnza T Counties from March 31 through 242 BLACK Delt rai l Wildcat Canyon DIAMOND Big Break Concord Oakley April 5, 1776. Traveling north, Anza Trail Exhibit 4 John Muir Historic SitePleasant Contra Loma they most likely used established Richmond Hill Brentwood 80 WILDCAT CANYON San Pablo Indian trails along the base of the 580 Reservoir 680 El Walnut il a r Cerrito TILDEN Creek T k e e hills, where views were expansive r Discovery B Orinda C a h y s Bay Albany A 24 r r a e M 4 BOTANIC a above the marshy lowlands. After GARDEN R Mount Diablo i Berkeley d Lafayette g State Park e Byron T SIBLEY r traveling along San Pablo and Rickman, David Service by courtesy Park of the National Painting EASTSHORE a ROUND il STATE PARK VALLEY San Francisco Emeryville Moraga Suisun Bays, the impenetrable Presidio Los Vaqueros The Anza party overlooking the Golden 24 HUCKLEBERRY Peralta Hacienda Reservoir Gate from what is now San Francisco. marshlands of the Delta prevented 80 HistoricREDWOO ParkD Danville 980 13 City of Oakland MORGAN Oakland 580 TERRITORY further eastward exploration, Upper San Leandro Reservoir forcing an early return back to CRAB 680 COVE Alameda ANTHONY San Monterey. 580 Ramon S a n CHABOT F r a n c i s c o BRUSHY Mission Dolores B a y PEAK San CULL Mission San Jose, just three CASanNYO NLorenzo Creek Leandro LAKE miles away at 43300 Mission CHABOT City of Hayward Dublin Castro Valley Historic Plaque 580 238 PALOMARES

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Missions “were founded to secure Union Alameda Creek When Anza and his followers traveled City DEL through the Bay Area, numerous groups of Spain’s claim to this land and to VARGAS VALLE 680 San Antonio COYOTE PLATEAU native peoples were living comfortably in B Reservoir HILLS a Mission y teach the native people Christian- ARDENWOOD A HISTORIC FARM r small villages that dotted the landscape. e San Jose a Fremont R OHLONE ity and the Spanish way of life.” id This is what one of those villages may g Spanish Mission Newark e SUNOL WILDERNESS T From the Mission San Jose website ra have looked like. 84 il Anza Expedition Campsite ss Ohlone Wil derne Tr ail Anza Interpretive Panel YOU ARE HERE Calaveras Welcome to the homeland of the Visitor Center MissionRe sPeeakrvoir Alson, an Ohlone-speaking tribe...... Proposed Recreation Trail Selected EBRPD Trails

Dates and stories taken from the diaries of Anza and Font, courtesy of Anza Auto Tour Route the Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon, 1776 Anza Expedition www.anza.uoregon.edu. Trail Corridor Highway This panel funded in part by the National Park Service EBRPD Lands Mission Challenge Cost Share Program in partnership with the Map created by Planning & Stewardship, & GIS Services Santa Clara Other Open Space North Dept., August 2010. Data sources include: NPS Juan East Bay Regional Park District. Bautista de Anza Historic Trail, NPS Auto Tour Route,

Miles NPS Expedition Trail Corridor, EBRPD GIS Data, 0 0.5 1 2 3 4 5 TeleAtlas Road Network, and USGS Elevation Data. Exhibit Design 7/11

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