Anza Angel
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:01 am
Don Juan Bautista de Anza was leading a group of emigrants, from Mexico who wanted to live in California.
It was the day before Christmas in the year 1775. A trail-weary mother pointed to a strange apparition on the mountain to the northwest and screamed, "Madre de Dios! Look Father, an angel! An angel points. Surely it's a good omen. Perhaps it points to water."
A child was born on that Christmas Eve, December 24, 1775, to Maria Gertrudis Rivas, wife of one of Anza's soldiers, Ignacio Linares, at a place called Upper Willows in what is now part of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. There is water there, its marks the entrance of Coyote Canyon.
That how this landmark got its name - Anza Angel.
Located in Coyote Canyon Anza Borrego Desert State Park in California
It was the day before Christmas in the year 1775. A trail-weary mother pointed to a strange apparition on the mountain to the northwest and screamed, "Madre de Dios! Look Father, an angel! An angel points. Surely it's a good omen. Perhaps it points to water."
A child was born on that Christmas Eve, December 24, 1775, to Maria Gertrudis Rivas, wife of one of Anza's soldiers, Ignacio Linares, at a place called Upper Willows in what is now part of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. There is water there, its marks the entrance of Coyote Canyon.
That how this landmark got its name - Anza Angel.
Located in Coyote Canyon Anza Borrego Desert State Park in California
I seem to recall seeing that surface (and may even have a pic) but didn’t know a story to go with it.