Despite an uproar and protests by a local Native American tribe, Gilroy has decided to install a brand new El Camino Real mission bell downtown to celebrate the city’s 150th anniversary.
GILROY – The concrete footing is poured and set. A kelly green pole points to the sky. But something is missing from the perch along Monterey Highway in this city at the southern end of Santa Clara County: a planned “mission bell” marking the historic route that once connected California’s missions.
GILROY CALIFORNIA – January 20: Carolyn Lopez, of Hollister, and Chhavy Nou, of Morgan Hill, pass a pole near Monterey Street between Sixth and Fifth streets in Gilroy, where the local arts commission has approved the installation of a mission bell, marking a historic route through California that connected Spanish missions.
But she relented and launched into her take on the subject. “I know the missions are out right now. They did do harm. But it was a different time,” the retired school teacher said. “I’m not saying they were right. But they are a symbol of California.” An El Camino Real mission bell is a familiar sight along Highway 101 about five miles south of Gilroy.
To Lopez, the mission bells are symbols not only of a whitewashed history of mission life but a false history of the El Camino Real itself, a series of trails first established as a trade route centuries earlier by indigenous people.
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