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...pounding surf, mud slides, wind-fanned fires, and especially earthquakesemdash;pose serious challenges to human occupation. Earthquakes have been observed throughout the areanrs"s recorded history. Juan Crespi, a Franciscan friar and colleague of missionary Junniacute;pero Serraprs"s, chronicled the expedition led by Gaspar de Portolkaacute; in 1769 and noted that a temblor lasting Ild"as long...
...pounding surf, mud slides, wind-fanned fires, and especially earthquakesemdash;pose serious challenges to human occupation. Earthquakes have been observed throughout the areanrs"s recorded history. Juan Crespi, a Franciscan friar and colleague of missionary Jundiacute;pero Serrairs"s, chronicled the expedition led by Gaspar de Portol.aacute; in 1769 and noted that a temblor lasting 1ld"as long...
Juan Crespi , 1721-82, Spanish explorer in the Southwest, a Franciscan. He came to America in 1749, and in 1767 he went to the peninsula of California in charge of Mission Purtiacute;sima Concepci oacute;n. In 1769 he joined the expedition of Gaspar de Portolá to occupy San Diego and Monterey and continued up the coast with Portolá. The following year he founded the Mission San Carlos Borromeo, in the present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, which became his headquarters. He was chaplain of the expedition to the N Pacific conducted by Juan P eacute;rez in 1774. His diaries, published in H. E. Bolton's Fray Juan Crespi (1927, repr. 1971), provided valuable records of these expeditions.
Juan Crespi Home School was built at 2105 - 24th Avenue, on the southwest corner of Quintara Street. Plans for the school were controversial. According to the San Francisco Call-Bulletin in May 1948, four homes were condemned so that a new elementary school (originally called the Sunset Reservoir home school unit ) could be built. This was a compromise; the school district originally wanted to condemn twenty-six homes on 24th Avenue.
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