 1730 — Don Francisco Casco de Mendoza, the first in his family to settle in these places, builds a chapel for private devotion in one of his fields along the Arroyo de la Cruz (Cross Creek).It was located in the present yard and parsonage.1735 — On September 14, the day the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, the ecclesiastical authority raises the Casco de Mendoza's chapel to viceparish status, opening it up for public worship in 1750.