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Tubac became the first European settlement in what today is the state of Arizona. Reenactment of the arrival of de Anza at Tubac, Arizona during Anza Days at Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Threatened by the establishment of a Russian fort immediately north of the San Francisco Bay area, the Spanish sent Juan Bautista de Anza to establish ...
In 1766, the garrison had 51 officers and men, and a settlement of forty families had grown up around the post. In 1774, Tubac's commander, Captain Juan Bautista de Anza, assembled the expedition that explored a land route from the Santa Cruz Valley to California. A reorganization of frontier defenses in 1775 resulted in the transfer of the ...
Tubac's most famous Spanish resident was Juan Bautista de Anza. While stationed at Tubac (1760–1776), de Anza built the chapel of Santa Gertrudis, the foundations of which lie beneath today's St. Ann's Church. Apaches attacked the town repeatedly in the 1840s, forcing the Sonoran Mexicans to abandon both Tumacacori and Tubac.
In southern Arizona, the little town of Tubac has evolved from a Spanish mission to an eclectic arts village. Here's how to spend a day exploring it.
Juan Bautista de Anza led an exploratory expedition on January 8, 1774, with 3 padres, 20 soldiers, 11 servants, 35 mules, 65 cattle, and 140 horses set forth from Tubac Presidio, south of present-day Tucson, Arizona. They went across the Sonoran desert to California from Mexico by swinging south of the Gila River to avoid Apache attacks until ...
University of Arizona. Archived from the original on June 30, 2010; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AZ-3, "San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ", 15 photos, 45 measured drawings, 6 data pages "Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail". National Park Service.
Signature. Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 6 or 7, 1736 [1] – December 19, 1788) was an expeditionary leader, military officer, and politician primarily in California and New Mexico under the Spanish Empire. He is credited as one of the founding fathers of Spanish California and served as an official within New Spain as Governor of ...
The original San Cayetano mission at Tumacacori was founded by Eusebio Kino in 1691, on Kino's first major exploration trip into the Pimeria Alta. During the O'odham rebellion of 1751, this mission was destroyed. [citation needed] In 1756, Francisco Xavier Pauer re-established the mission, taking at least seventy-eight O'odham from their ...