SAN JUAN BAUTISTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, CA

Salinas / ‘guard animal’? (#0069) Getting closer to why I was visiting the park, I came across this unusual statue – again with no description. But, the fenced enclosure in the background is my real reason for visiting (forthcoming picture).
Salinas / ‘guard animal’? (#0069) Credit: DB's travels

The San Juan Bautista Historical Society (SJBHS) is a non-profit organization that works to preserve and promote the history of San Juan Bautista, California. Founded in 1983, the SJBHS seeks to collect and maintain artifacts, documents and photographs that reflect the history of the San Juan Bautista area and the surrounding region.

The SJBHS also provides educational programs and activities to the community, including historical talks, tours and workshops. The Society also works to preserve and protect significant historical sites in the area, such as the San Juan Bautista Mission, the San Juan Bautista Plaza, and the San Juan Bautista Cemetery.

The Society also runs a museum in the historic Casa Sanchez Adobe, which houses exhibits that bring to life the history of San Juan Bautista. In addition to the museum, the SJBHS also runs the San Juan Bautista Historical Research Center, where visitors can explore a vast collection of photographs, documents and artifacts.

The SJBHS is a member of the California Historical Society, the American Association for State and Local History, and the California Mission Studies Association. The Society is also an active participant in the San Juan Bautista Historic Preservation Commission and the San Juan Bautista Main Street Program.

The SJBHS is dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of San Juan Bautista and its surrounding area, and to providing educational opportunities to the community.

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in SAN JUAN BAUTISTA CA. US MID #8400602552

The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Western (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington).

Salinas / ‘guard animal’? (#0069) Getting closer to why I was visiting the park, I came across this unusual statue – again with no description. But, the fenced enclosure in the background is my real reason for visiting (forthcoming picture).
Castroville / Japanese Schoolhouse internment - baggage (# 0974) Becoming human baggage shipped to Salinas Rodeo Grounds, living in horse stalls, going hungry…. A version of this same placard was posted a few months earlier, as I was traveling: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/donbrr/53370364160">www.flickr.com/photos/donbrr/53370364160</a> See the <u><a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=63714" rel="noreferrer nofollow">schoolhouse marker</a></u> for detail of the text. <i>Use the “Castroville Japanese Schoolhouse” tag to connect the pictures.</i>
Castroville / Japanese Schoolhouse internment - home (# 0013) Signs telling the story of Japanese settlement of the area in the 1920’s. See the <u><a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=63714" rel="noreferrer nofollow">schoolhouse marker</a></u> for detail of the text. <i>Use the “Castroville Japanese Schoolhouse” tag to connect the pictures.</i>
Castroville / Japanese Schoolhouse internment – to detention (# 0016) Description of of being rounded up and forced to leave for the detention center. See the <u><a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=63714" rel="noreferrer nofollow">schoolhouse marker</a></u> for detail of the text. <i>Use the “Castroville Japanese Schoolhouse” tag to connect the pictures.</i>
Castroville / Japanese Schoolhouse internment cycle (# 0028) A fascinating, and very under-utilized, historical site in Castroville, which is on the way to Monterey, CA. I fortunately discovered it, and a number of other places related to Japanese and Chinese history in California, just by searching through <u><a href="https://www.hmdb.org" rel="noreferrer nofollow">The Historical Marker Database</a></u>. Japanese laborers had been migrating to this area since the late 1800’s as tenant farmers (the primary crop remains artichokes). By the 1930’s there were enough Japanese families that they wanted a schoolhouse to preserve history and also to provide a community for their children that was safe from the local hostility. The “Japanese Schoolhouse,” founded in 1936, was short-lived since in 1942 all Japanese were ordered to be interred, due to the war with Japan. Historical Marker <u>”<a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=63772" rel="noreferrer nofollow">For the Sake of the Children</a>”</u> provides a good description of the history of the area. Note that the schoolhouse is sometimes referred to as the Castroville Japanese Language School. Use the <i>Castroville Japanese Schoolhouse</i> tag to connect the pictures.
Castroville / Japanese Schoolhouse – monument (# 0030) As the <u><a href="http://www.mchsmuseum.com/Japanese.html" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Monterey County</a></u> site and the <u><a href="https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=63714" rel="noreferrer nofollow">HMDB timeline</a></u> describe the schoolhouse and the Castroville community, the town has historically been home to migrants who work in the surrounding fields, and those migrants have regularly had a concern that their children remember their heritage and use their heritage for protection, thus the “ For the Sake of the Children” motto. Unfortunately, the site is not well-marked on either of the major highways passing it, and there are no signs in the town leading to it. Thus, much like I’ve experienced in other recent efforts to understand historic discrimination and hostility to Asian populations, there seems to be a concerted effort to keep that past invisible. <i>Use the “Castroville Japanese Schoolhouse” tag to connect the pictures.</i>
Western blue-eyed grass
Grazing goats
Hairy woodsorrel Oxalis pilosa
Mensies' baby blue eyes Nemophila menziesii
California king snake Lampropeltis californiae
Brush rabbit Sylvilagus bachmani

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SAN JUAN BAUTISTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PO BOX 1
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA
CA
95045

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MID # 8400602552
Name SAN JUAN BAUTISTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Alternate Name
Classification Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Western
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) 946130589
NTEECC
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM) 201306
INCOME 0
REVENUE 0
LAT/LONG 36.841402, -121.533994
CODES FIPS State Code: 06
FIPS County Code: 069
US Census Tract: 000200
US Census Block: 3013