Historical Marker · No. 393
Mission Hospice
San Mateo, San Mateo County · California
Erected by Anson Burlingame Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
No state plaque stands here; the bronze is the Daughters of the American Revolution's. This was Ramaytush Ohlone land, and the building the bronze calls a hospice was Mission Dolores's outpost by San Mateo Creek: a granary whose rooms housed Indigenous laborers or travelers, with a chapel that led people to call it a mission, which it never was. By the late 1840s it stood abandoned, and Nicholas de Peyster ran a store and public house in it until William Howard, the rancho's new owner, ordered him out in 1850. It was demolished in 1868 after an earthquake.
What the plaque says
Here stood the Mission Hospice built by the Spanish padres on El Camino Real to break the journey from Santa Clara and to serve the Indians of Mission Dolores, ca. 1800. Marked by Anson Burlingame Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution
Where it stands
37.56505, -122.32797 · Directions
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