Donner Party Graves & Vertigo movie locations in San Juan Bautista
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2021
- Jeff will visit San Juan Bautista near Monterey, California, where the largest collection of graves of Donner Party survivors are located. Patrick Breen, who wrote the diary during the ordeal in 1846-47, and his family members are buried here.
He will also visit the historic Plaza in town where the Mission is located as well as buildings used by Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak for filming of the Alfred Hitchcock film, "Vertigo."
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Hi there, I'm Patrick Breen's great great great great grandson. I grew up in Hollister and I'm very proud of my family's history, thanks for the cool video!
That is awesome! A very noteworthy California family and legacy!
A good reminder of the hardship and tragedies that early pioneers suffered. Thanks for reminding us.
Love that town..had first date with (now wife), there at Mission. Had dinner at Jardine's...that was 10 years and 2 kids ago...love it
Congratulations! Did you move away from San Juan Bautista?
@@jbenziggy Hey Jeff.....actually no, my wife was from Salinas and I was living in Los Banos...so that was a perfect meeting point for us.
I miss Huell Howser. Great video and thanks for mentioning him.
LOL my dad used to do the same graveyard joke on me, and the train tack joke, every time we seen a train track he would say, "A train just went through here , you know how I know?" .. How dad?..
"It left its tracks"
Hah !, Great Dad Joke 😂
I went to middle school in Riverside California with a kid named Greg Donner. He said he was a descendent of the Donner party family. Nice kid.This was about 1976.
I hope he didn't invite you to sit with him at lunch....
I worked with a gal with the Donner last name and she said she was a descendant of the Party
Thank you Jeff for the great story as usual and the Donner party was always one of my interests as a boy. I met Jimmy Stewart as a teenage boy in the 1980s when I lived in Dearborn Michigan. He had donated a replica plane of Charles Lindbergh's that was used in the movie he protrayed Lindbergh. Mr. Stewart used to come to the Henry Ford Museum to sit with his wife and look at the plane. I was 16 in 1984 and sat down next to him to say "Hi". He was a very nice person and his wife was very sweet.
I am so sorry that I never got to meet Mr. Stewart! You are lucky! He seemed like a prince of a man! A great patriot too!
Amazing story with all the history to it you have added. Great video Jeff enjoyed it very much Thankyou
went there in forth grade w burbank elementary modesto city schools...it was my first experience outside the ghetto of modesto.. i had a blast...great video
Tons of good info in this video. Scenery, history, host...all enjoyable!
Thank you very much for that great comment!
Thanks again for a most informative program on California historyl I taught school in Santa Ana for some 30 years, and missions were a large part of my lessons. I only wish I had had your program to help the kids understand our history . Thanks again !!
Terrific! Love the Donner history. Thanks Jeff.
Your stories just keep getting better and better and better. Thanks for all you do. Bob from Ohio. (Flat farmland)
From one flat farm lander to another thanks a bunch!
Amazing how dry it is. Looks like a desert cemetery. Going to be another brutal summer. Very interesting history !
Yes it has already been a brutal summer. Today it’s supposed to get 108° where we live.
We’re in a drought
Wow, what a great tour! Thank you!
Happy to hear, Lisa! I appreciate it!
Thanks for another great chunk of our history that I sadly was unaware of. Everyone talks about those that died in the Donner party, but you're the only one honoring the memory of those who survived that brutal ordeal. Keep up being awesome!
This was so FANtastic, Jeff. One can only imagine the horrific circumstances. I love it when you insert evidence, such as the diary, from the time period. That cemetery is so interesting. The history of that town... ☀️👏
I appreciate your nice compliment. I’m assuming FANtastic is better than plain fantastic? LOL
@@jbenziggy ABSOLUTELY 👏🌞
Keep Em coming , Excellent!!!
Awesome to see my hometown pop up on my feed. Hello from Northern Kentucky!
Amazing! What is your hometown?
@@jbenziggy I grew up in San Juan Bautista, CA but moved to the Cincinnati area (just across the river in Northern KY) about 9 years ago for work. I love your videos. I get to learn a ton about places in CA that I never even knew about. Great stuff!
I remember learning about the Breen Family on a field trip to Sutters Fort when I was a youngster, no idea they settled in San Juan. Great video!
Another enjoyable video, thank you Jeff and Sarah! 🇺🇸🚜👍
Very informative. Love the drone shots. I have backpacked in the Donner Lake area. Very pretty area...
This is real American history, and well researched, this story has always interested me
Sunday morning, cup of Joe and History Hunters.....😄
Thanks for another winner Jeff. I enjoyed it.
Always enjoy your videos involving the donner party. Top notch. That famous picture of Patrick Breen is powerful. Looks like a man who wouldn't put up with trivialities.
The part inside the bell that hits against the outer bell is called a "Clapper".
Much better then what Jeff called it :)
Made of copper so it's a "Copper Clapper". Claud Cooper stole it..(Jack Webb- Johnny Carson routine)
How many of us were hoping to provide him with the word he was looking for...!
You my friend are carrying Huell Howser’s torch for us old timers who appreciate the slower paced scenic life. Much love and appreciation.
I loved all the information in this video. It was fun seeing Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak back in the day! Thanks Jeff and Sarah! Hope Sarah feels better soon. We miss her!🤗
Great video... My husband and I are from Hollister and San Juan. Great info. 👍
Wow, that is one big family! Interesting backstory of what became of some of the people at the Donner pass incident. Very interesting!
And I always love the way you you show the “now” and “the way it use to look” shots or video when you can. Great job with the editing you put into the all the work you do!
In grade school I had a classmate with the name of Kim Novak too! Funny side note :)
Thank you for the great video and I’ll see ya guy’s on the next one! Take care now! Frank from Philadelphia, PA.
Another excellent video, thanks Jeff and Sarah.
It is so very hard to fathom being put into the position of making such an excruciating decision in order to preserve you own life😔 Another excellent production of what our forebears had to confront in these times. Thank you Jeff for keeping these stories and all the others alive in our consciousness in these present times.
I love the really old graves as far back as the 1700s. The markers are amazing.
I don't see Sarah yet, there are a few animals there for her!
This is an excellent video. I can tell the history is very well researched, and I have learned things about the Donner party I didn’t know before.
I read a book called “The Best Land Under Heaven”. Fascinating account of before during and a bit after the ordeal.
I also read that book. It was good. Ironically I was reading it last year when we first went into lockdown. And as I was reading about the hardships of being trapped, I thought it was funny how people were complaining about having to stay inside their houses.
Another great video, but I sure miss Sarah! Hope she is feeling ok.
Sara wasn’t feeling well and didn’t want to leave the car. We were parked in the shade for her though. She is quite the trooper.
@@jbenziggy I can understand that! We are melting here in N Cali and it is adding to the misery of my chronic aliments. I know Sara has health challenges too. Maybe you can get her to pop in and say hi during next week's episode. Your videos are the highlight of my Sunday mornings!
another interesting tour via Jeff! Thanks!
Brilliant video.its amazing the amount of irish buried over in America.loved.the history of this .thank you.lots of love from ireland❤❤
Back in February of last year, before the lockdown, I took a trip up to northern Cal. We toured Sutters Fort in Sacramento. They had Patty Reeds doll on display. She was an 8 year old survivor of the Donner Party.
You Jeff are just awesome great job. I had forgot about California gold watched everyone back in the day, you are still a better story teller. " you are the History Hunter"
Very interesting town . Thankyou for sharing this history ...
I had a grammar school teacher in San Jose whose last name was Breen. I guess probably related.
Another great video. You definitely have a knack for coming up with content that is of interest to me personally. Back in the mid 80's I was fascinated with "Vertigo" and I went with my then girlfriend on a two day trip checking out all the filming locations, you know, Fort Point, Mission Dolores, assorted other SF sites, and San Juan Bautista. I remember being seriously disappointed that the mission tower from the movie didn't actually exist. In retrospect, I should have known, as it is pretty obvious in the film that the tower was just a matt painting....but I didn't realize it until we got there. But in all other ways, the mission and surrounding buildings are pretty timeless, and look exactly the same now as they did in 1986 and in 1958.
Thank you! So much of California has changed since I was a boy. I guess with more people means less intimacy and more streamlined everything. What you could do in 1960 you can’t do today. More people, more wrongdoing and more rules. At times it feels like we are devolving not progressing. Fortunately some spots look the same, like this town. May it stay that way!
@@jbenziggy Exactly. California used to be a paradise. But now there are places I loved as a kid that I simply will no longer visit for any reason....like the entire city of San Francisco. Without delving into politics, I will say that only part of the negative change is due to increasing population. But the state doesn't "have" to have changed for the worse anywhere near as much as it has.
It’s my favorite small town in the area, super cute :)
Love San Juan Bautista. Watched Vertigo again after we went there. My dad moved from Modesto and retired to Alta, which is very close to Donner pass. I really love the California history you present. Next time I’m in modesto visiting family I’d love to meet you two and buy you lunch.
Hello History Hunters, Thanks so much for sharing another great video and remembering the lives of the Donner Party. Learning history can never be wrong. Thanks for what you do "Happy 😊Day!
♥️. We love y’all!
Great! We love our viewers too!
Thank you Jeff for sharing another informative video with us. While driving to Monterey on Hwy 152, I never took the time to alter our course and visit San Juan Batista's many historical sites. My bad. I'd love to be able to go back in time and revisit the area.
Again, thanks for sharing this episode with us.
By the way, we're missing Sarah, please share our sentiments with her.
Stan
Great episode. Seeing the graves helps to bring to reality. It was a terrible thing that happened to the Donner’s , but it’s weird how they were celebrates after. Did you run across anything about the Bixby’s? The Bixby’s were sheep ranchers and partners with the Hollisters. The Bixby family story is interesting.
We were only concentrated on the Breens and finding Mr. Hodgdon for our video. Sorry about that.
Thank you for this very informative video. I lived in San Juan Bautista and in that same church I did my first communion and had my 8th grade graduation ceremony. I just loved growing up there. Such a wonderful little town.
Amazing information Jeff, we enjoyed this show immensely!
Another entertaining and informative effort! Thanks for taking me along, Jeff .😊👍
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
Visited San Juan Bautista many a time as a kid. We would bring a picnic and sit on the grass in the courtyard there! Thanks for the memories
You’re welcome! Glad you liked this!
Love the history and diversity of your videos. You produce great work, even with the limited, lockdown locations. Thanks for your time.
Excellent as always, love old California history. Never tire of Vertigo, a real classic.
Thanks Jeff for more awesome history. How California was the land of golden oprotunity at one time. With the gold rush, farm lands & vineyards. Now politics & drout have taken it's toll on once a beautiful state. Lived most of my life there, but got to expensive to live there. Thank you for your history tours .
Thank you, Troy! I appreciate the comment! The foothills are usually brown this time of year but the Central Valley is a patchwork of greens thanks to irrigation. Sadly, state leaders have policies that are not friendly to water storage and the farmers often suffer because of it. Their leadership has failed California.
You never disappoint. The Donner party stuff fascinates me. Love your channel.
Fantastic as always. Thank you 😊
Thank you. I like that “fantastic” summation. Much appreciated.
Another great history lesson. Have you ever done a video on the famous people buried at Fort Rosecrans Cemetery in San Diego? I was visiting the Cabrillo Monument at the tip of Pt. Loma and then drove through the Fort Rosecrans Cemetery in awe of its beauty and history.
Thanks! Nope we haven’t been to the cemetery you mentioned in San Diego.
Thank you Jeff! Enjoyed the video!
Wonderful … thanks very much. 😃
Good video Jeff. Greetings from the Netherlands, Europe
Thanks Jeff and Sarah for another trip into the past. Been along time the last time I passed through there. We took one of our boys there for a school paper on the California Missions. I have to tell you, this last week, one of my young co-workers and I were talking about the Loveland, CO Cemetery, and I asked him how many people were dead in that cemetery, and I got him! All of them! My father in law has used that on us and his grand kids for years. We were cracking up when you said it! Nice job as always. Your videos keep the past alive.
Glad I made you laugh! Thanks for watching and commenting about this excursion in San Juan Bautista.
Always learning something new from you keep up the great work
Wonderful to hear! Thanks Johnny!
You know what is sad? I never learned about this tragedy in school. I'm 53, years old. The first time I learned about this was in 1980, from watching The Shining. Even when I was in College, and took up an English class on Survival, this wasn't one of the learned tragedy. Honesty, this is the first time I'm hearing about this sad, sad, tragedy in detail. Thank you, for not forgetting about This tragedy.
We have another video on the Donner Party that is more explanatory, plus we visited the camp sites!
Great video. Love the history.
I remember hurl show very well because my mom and dad were fans. Good show.
Good one jeff love the donner party story and you tell it well
Hey Jeff great video that's a beautiful place I think the history of the donner party is interesting I really enjoy your videos you and Sara are awesome randy from Kentucky.
Wow thanks Randy! So generous a comment! I really appreciate that!
Awesome video, very interesting about the Donner party, those poor people they suffered so much, RIP, sweet friends.
I was supposed to go there for my 4th grade field trip but it was canceled. Just watched this with my wife and she had went as child. She remembered so much of this.
That is a very interesting and quaint town! You aren't able to take a road trip there and check it out or do you live too far away?
@@jbenziggy I’m in Clovis so it’s a nice little road trip not to far away!
I can only imagine how miserable they had it, watching from Ohio great job Smitty out 🙃👏👏👏👏
Super cool to see the actual locations spliced with a Hollywood movie. Fascinating history of the Breen family.
Thanks for the great comment!
Wonderfully done ! As usual I enjoyed every minute ☺ 👍
My wife and I really enjoy all your videos thank you for all you do
Thanks so very much! You’re welcome! Glad you like watching it together.
@@jbenziggy I know the hard work that goes into making these and by watching each one its clear you guys have a love and passion for what you do. Thank you guys for creating change for so many simply through smiles.
Gotta ✔️ out San Juan Bautista,been by there many times but never stopped. Lots of History right there. Our Mission at San Miguel is in terrible shape,I hope the missions are fixed up soon. Thanks for the video . 🇺🇸
Very interesting and I always learn so much more than I ever knew. Thanks 😊👍
I pass through here on my way to the beach a few times a year and I’ve always wondered about that little cemetery.
Absolutely incredible. Thank you.
I walk the grave stones when I visit my relatives, each stone equal a great story
Another good video your videos get better with everyone. Thang both of you guys Frank from montana...
Thank you Again for another Great history hunt...Kind Regards
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting history thanks for opening my eyes...I've been to the area but not there. Incredible history. Thanks again.
Always looking for new videos from you. You're the best..
Another home run! Bravo! So much history and love the movie snippets. Thanks.
Very well done !!!
Rainy day here in Ohio. So beautiful there. Love the history.
This was shot two weeks ago but our weather is still like this. Supposed to hit 108 today where we are. Yikes!
Enjoyed Huelll's show alot. Enjoy your channel also. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much. It’s too bad that Huell passed away too soon. I never got to meet him but we did talk by phone and he was a really nice guy.
Another especially interesting episode for me. An ancestor on my mother's side of the family, Laura S. (Lenhart) Breen was the wife of Peter Breen, grandson of Patrick and Margaret. I've never been to San Juan Bautista, but this episode has definitely piqued my interest - thanks for doing what you do!
Love the history you share cool stuff
Thanks very much, Jim!
Very informative video about SJB. Thank You
Many years ago I lived in Reno and would make numerous trips up to Donner Lake and Alder Creek where they were trapped. Beautiful area.
So much of California's history is just left to rot and run into the ground. It's just a shame and I've never understood why its history matters to so few... after all buildings that date to the the 1700s are rare, especially out here, and should be treated with much more respect...
...sigh...
I agree
Another great episode!
Awesome! Thanks for all the hard work!!
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
🙋♀️🇮🇹 greetings from Venice Italy
Hello! Glad to have you watching from Italy! 🇮🇹
The Donner Party was part of the 100-plus wagon train that left Independence, MO in May of 1846. One group out of the train that they sometimes traveled with was the Dickinson-Gordon party led by Capt. Gallant Duncan Dickinson. The groups would change leads and positions in the train as each group's ability to travel also changed. Dickinson would not take the Hastings Cutoff while the Donners were ahead at that time. The Dickinson group arrived first near present-day Truckee and were preparing for the ascent of the Sierras when the Donners showed up weary and exhausted.
Storm clouds were beginning to form over the summit and Capt. Dickinson tried to convince the Donners that waiting to make the climb to rest would be unwise. The Donners chose to rest several days, and we know the outcome. The Dickinson Party was the last group to make the climb ahead of the Donners and dealt with snow over the summit. They, too, had to be rescued on the western side of the Sierras because of lack of food. They had sent one member of their group ahead for help from Johnson's Ranch on the Bear River, and they suffered no loss of life.
Once in the valley and in the midst of a war, they were directed to the Santa Clara mission and participated in the Battle of Santa Clara(Battle of the Mustard Stalks). This had been brought on by Capt. Chas. Weber who was rustling horses from the Californio ranches for use by the California Battalion. Eventually, many members of the group drifted down to Monterey and began several early businesses. Dickinson learned the brick-making trade from his grandfather and commenced building the first brick house in California. It still stands and is part of the state park in old town Monterey.
The gold rush hits. Monterey becomes a ghost town with everyone leaving for Coloma. Dickinson girls were scooping nuggets out of the river with tablespoons. Soon they drifted down to Placerville(Dry Diggings), Mokelumne Hill(Dickinson Gulch), and Stockton(Weberville). Dickinson set up Stockton's first lodging establishment(the Dickinson House) that was burned in one of Stockton's early fires in May 1851. This changed Dickinson's financial fortunes even though he was appointed as the first Prefect for the San Joaquin Judicial District and was a signer for the city of Stockton's incorporation.
To make a long story short, taxes were coming due on Dickinson's brick house in Monterey, and a Sheriff's sale was set on the property that Dickinson had paid $29 for. So, in 1851, Patrick Breen of San Juan Bautista bought the house, property, & 60,000 bricks for $1091. No doubt the Breens remembered their former traveler from that wagon train!
A good story would be on the history of the members of the Dickinson-Gordon party.
Jeff, I live on the eqst coast in nc, I love watching your show because you do the research, thank you.
Thank you very much! Glad to have the East Coast watching!
Great history, thank you!!!
Jeff .I love your stories .
Thanks Kevin! That’s my brother’s name!
@@jbenziggy Small world
From Ireland myself Carlow is a beautiful place breen is well known in Ireland and also County Carlow