MISSION SAN JUAN
Site — San Antonio, Texas
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/mission-san-juan-san-antonio-texas/

The 1731 mission on the river—the working church in the fields.

Mission San Juan is a site in San Antonio, Texas. The 1731 mission on the river—the working church in the fields. HauntHunt files it with the colonial era, missions and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.

San Juan is the moved — the 'East Texas' that's the '16's start, the 'third site' that's the '31's landing. The 'ditches first' is the ordered — the 'before walls' that's the acequia's priority, the 'gravity' that's the water's engine. The 'arches filled' is the puzzled — the 'only mission' that's the design's odd, the 'why closed' that's the question's open.
The 'self-run' is the praised — the 'no overseers' that's the '67's report, the 'industrious' that's the inspector's word. The 'half church' is the stopped — the 'bigger planned' that's the ambition's form, the 'population fell' that's the abandonment's cause. San Juan is the rewatered — the '2011' that's the acequia's return, the 'farm grows' that's the demonstration's life.
The file keeps San Juan: the moved mission, the first ditches, the filled arches, and the rewatered farm.
Mission San Juan is the archive's Texas file — the mission where the ditch outlasted the church.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Mission San Juan is the archive's Texas file — the acequia still farming after 280 years.
A mission keeps its ditch — the file's suggestion being that San Juan's hold is the watered: the 'before walls' that's the acequia's priority, the 'arches' that's the design's puzzle, and the 'rewatered' that's the farm's return.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported a presence in the church. Mission San Juan's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The reports are anecdotal — consistent enough to record, thin enough to stay unproven. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Mission San Juan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Juan_Capistrano_(Texas))

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1731] Built 1731; the working parish is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Mission San Juan'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Mission San Juan — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Juan_Capistrano_(Texas)

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