and in 1775, juan batista diaz, and early soldier for the spanish government, created his own trail from basically southern arizona up into california and up as far north as monterey, california. so mr. bautista went back to the spanish government and got permission to lead an expedition following the same trail, and in 1776, mr. diaz led a group of 240 people, this is a mix of different native americans, different spaniards, people of mixed races, across on this overland trail and they ended up , in monterey. a couple months later, his lieutenant led the remaining group up to the presidio in san francisco where they settled for , the next six months. at that time, the governor of california was looking for a way of having a civil establishment beyond just the presidios and missions, but a civil type farming community that would act for supply station different establishments, and at the time, you had mission santa clara founded here in the late 1776, that is known by the missionaries at that time, it had rich agricultural potential, movedroup of 66 settlers down from the presidio in san

batista diaz, an early soldier for the spanish government, created his own trail from basically southern arizona up into california and up as far north as monterey, california. bautistautista, -- mr. went back to the spanish government and got permission to lead an expedition following the trail. mr. diaz led a grup of 240 people, this is a mix of different native americans, different spaniards, people of mixed races, across on this overland trail and they ended up in monterey. a couple months later, his lieutenant led the remaining group up to the presido san francisco where they settled for the next six months. at that time, the governor of california was looking for a way of having a civil establishment beyond just the presidios and missions, but a civil type farming community that would act as a station for these different establishments. so with the known, at the time he had mission santa clara founded here in the early 17 -- late 1776, that is known by the missionaries at that time, it was a rich agricultural -- had rich agricultural potential for farming. so that's where, in novem