This marker, in the corner of a city park, is the only object visible.
Bronze plaque.
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Asistencia Santa Paula was an Asistencia to Mission San Buenaventura about 20 miles west. On August 11, 1769, the Portolá Expedition camped at the junction of the Arroyo Mupu and Santa Paula Creek, at a place they named the Holy Martyrs Ipolito and Cassiano. Later, the priests of the Mission San Buenaventura established Asistencia Santa Paula at this site, where they held services for the Mupu Indians. Little is known about this Asistencia. Today all the remains is a road side marker in the lawn of Boys and Girls Club of Santa Paula commemorating the Portolá Expedition. Location: Boys and Girls Club of Santa Paula, just east of Harding Park, south side of Harvard Boulevard in the 1400 block in the City of Santa Paula. There is a marker to the Portolá Expedition at the east end, about 50 feet from Harvard Boulevard. |
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This marker, in the corner of a city park, is the only object visible. |
Bronze plaque. |
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The plaque reads: "On August 13, 1769* Reaching the junction of the Arroyo Mupu with the river, the place was named the Holy Marters, Ipolito and Casiano. Upon founding the Mission San Buenaventura, the priests established here an Asistencia and christened it Santa Paula, where they frequently held sevices for the conversion of the Mupu Indians." *This was the year of founding the first Mission in Alta California, San Diego. It seems this is the year of the first expedition, not the founding of the Asistencia. San Buenaventura was founded in 1782. |
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