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Walking Tours
Walking Tours
Learn more about the Mission San Jose area with a Walking Tour. We have partnered with the Washington Township Museum of Local History and others, to help you appreciate this special location selected long ago by the Spanish Franciscans for Mission San Jose.
Tours Offered during the Celebration
Tours of Old Mission San Jose
Date and Time : Offered continuously
A tour through Old Mission San Jose’s historic facilities will acquaint you with the Mission Museum (formerly the living quarters), the restored adobe Church, our historic Cemetery, and the beautiful patio garden.
Walk into the Past
Saturday, April 9, 2022 9:30 am -1:30 pm
Greater Mission San Jose Area Guided Hike. Highlights will include: St. Joseph Cemetery, Sabercat Trail, Old St. Mary’s of the Palms, Palm Ave., Olive Ave., Mill Creek, among others…
Tour Leader: Patricia Schaffarczyk
Clicking below will take you to the Washington Township Museum of Local History website.
Ohlone Culture at the Tule Ponds
Sunday, April 24, 2022 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Take a 2 hour docent-led tour of the Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon (near Fremont BART) where the Ohlones would fish and collect seeds from the Native Plants. This tour will focus on the Muwekma Ohlones that were used as workers at Mission San Jose. Make a tule doll.
Clicking below will take you to the Math Science Nucleus website.
Ohlone Culture at the Tule Ponds
Sunday, June 5, 2022 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Take a 2 hour docent-led tour of the Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon (near Fremont BART) where the Ohlones would fish and collect seeds from the Native Plants. This tour will focus on the Muwekma Ohlones that were used as workers at Mission San Jose. Make a tule doll.
Clicking below will take you to the Math Science Nucleus website.
Historic Mission San Jose Town Walking Tour
Saturday, October 8, 2022 11:00 am
Tour of the Mission San Jose Town with historic locations and stories presented throughout.
Tour Leader: Kelsey Camello
Clicking below will take you to the Washington Township Museum of Local History website.
WHY WAS THE MISSION IN FREMONT NAMED “MISSION SAN JOSE?”
Contrary to what you may have read in most books, we are not the Mission San Jose de Guadalupe. In the early part of the 1900’s, a sign was erected on the roof of the Museum which said “Mission San Jose de Guadalupe.” Many books have since been published and, unfortunately, the authors use this reference in their stories. When this Mission was founded it was named “La Mision del Gloriosisimo Patriarch San Jose” in honor of St. Joseph. All of our record books refer to the Mission as Mission San Jose. Though the pueblo (city) of San Jose was founded 13 miles south near the Guadalupe River, the only connection between the pueblo and the Old Mission is that both were named in honor of St. Joseph.
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