Anza Society, Inc.



	Juan Bautista de Anza



Plaza at Horcasitas




	Yuma Crossing




	Puerto Real San Carlos

Anza Society, Inc. photos by Phil Valdez Jr.

Welcome to The Anza Society Website

We hope you will find it interesting and
enlightening. The site will be available to
share information about the organization,
its meetings, upcoming events of other
Anza affilated organizations, and of
course, our membership. We hope you
will join our organization so we may
increase interest and awareness in Juan
Bautista de Anza and Spanish Colonial
history. Check out the membership form
and come and join the fun. Don't hesitate
to e-mail us with your comments and/or
suggestions. We look foward to hearing
from and having you join us!

Joe Myers
President and Director


			Our Purpose To celebrate the life and times of Lt. Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza, Presidial Captain of New Spain, now Mexico, explorer, founder of San Francisco, California, and Governor of New Mexico. These activities shall include 18th century Spanish Colonial history, but not limited to, as authorized by the Board of Directors. The Anza Society has held an "Annual World Conference" each year since 1996. Conferences have been held in Arizpe, Sonora Mexico (the home town of the Anza Family in America); Monte Vista, Colorado; San Francisco, California; Pueblo, Colorado; Salida, Colorado; Yuma, Arizona; and Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. This year the conference was at the Santa Barbara Presidio at Santa Barbara, California from March 6, 7 & 8, 2008.