History of mission Santa Clara De Asis
Mission Santa Clara was first named Mission Santa Clara de Thamien (reference to the Tamyen people) at the Indian village of the Socoisuka. It was built on January 12, 1777. It was the 8th mission ever to be built. By 1797, the third year, the mission was the mission with most wheat crop. By 1800, there were 1,247 Native Americans and orchards with all kinds of fruits and olives (did you know there are 11 basic types of olives?)! The Native Americans had grown quite peaceful learning all sorts of things at the mission like weaving, leather tanning, and tool making. However, the Native Americans would occasionally cause trouble. There were a lot of troubles at the mission.* In 1833, the Mexicans ruled over California, and the Mexicans did not support the missions. So the mission started to die down. Then, in 1850, The U.S.A. came to California and California became a state. Father John Nobili was put in charge of the mission, so he decided to build a collage there. It was not easy, but in the end, he did it.