Anza Expedition Camp at San Mateo Creek

This creek was Ssalson country. Anza came down to it after dark on 29 March 1776 and found nearly all the village's men already in his camp, eager to serve. He had met that welcome on this shore since the 26th and nowhere else since the Colorado River. The bronze's second sentence happened without him. He turned for Sonora on 14 April and never saw San Francisco founded. The families who camped here in June came under Lieutenant José Joaquín Moraga, driving 286 cattle, and Palóu wrote that the people along the road had never seen such animals.

What the plaque says

Historic Camp Site Here on the banks of San Mateo Creek Captain J. B. de Anza camped, March 29, 1776, after exploring the peninsula and selecting the sites for the Mission and Presidio of San Francisco. Here also the party of families, soldiers and priests, on the way to found San Francisco, camped for three days, June 24 - 27, 1776. State Registered Landmark No. 47 Tablet placed by California Centennials Commission. Base furnished by City of San Mateo in cooperation with San Mateo County Historical Association. Dedicated October 16, 1949

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Mission Hospice — 0.2 mi
• Anza Expedition Camp at Burlingame — 1.4 mi
• Burlingame Railroad Station — 1.5 mi
• Carolands — 2.4 mi