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  2. Mission San Luis Rey de Francia - Wikipedia

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    Today, Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is a working mission, cared for by the people who belong to the parish, with ongoing restoration projects. Mission San Luis Rey has a Museum, Visitors' Center, Retreat Center, [26] gardens with the historic Pepper Tree, and the original small cemetery. [27] [28] [29]

  3. Monterrey - Wikipedia

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    Antonio Basagoiti and other citizens founded the Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey. [19] A steel-producing company that accelerated the already fast industrialization of the city was founded in 1900 and became one of the world's biggest. In 1986, Monterrey hosted several games of the 1986 FIFA World Cup. [citation needed]

  4. Oceanside, California - Wikipedia

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    Oceanside's origins date to 1798, when the Spanish founded Mission San Luis Rey de Francia under the leadership of Fermín de Lasuén. The village of San Luis Rey and its mission in 1827. Originally inhabited by Native Americans, Oceanside was first settled by the Luiseño peoples, or the Payomkawichum.

  5. Mexican Secularization Act of 1833 - Wikipedia

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    The buildings were disintegrating, as beams, tiles and nails were taken from the church by settlers. The buildings had been leased to a number of businesses, and the premises served as a hog farm. San Fernando's church did not become a working church again till 1923. [43] Mission San Luis Rey de Francia was sold in 1834 to private owners. But ...

  6. San Antonio de Pala Asistencia - Wikipedia

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    The San Antonio de Pala Asistencia, or the Pala Mission, was founded on June 13, 1816, as an asistencia or "sub-mission" to Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, some twenty miles inland upstream from the latter mission on the San Luis Rey River.

  7. History of Monterrey - Wikipedia

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    Born in the Azores in 1547, Captain Alberto del Canto was commissioned by Martin Lopez de Ibarra to make settlements in name of New Vizcaya.Del Canto in 1577 the town of Santiago del Saltillo Minas de la Trinidad (), Minas de San Gregorio and villa de Santa Lucia at the Extremadura Valley and practically just marked a place called Santa Lucia on which today is the center of modern-day Monterrey.

  8. How the Central Valley became a fertile land for Southerners ...

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    During the colonization of California and its natives, beginning in July 16, 1769 when Father Junipero Serra founded San Diego de Alcalá, the mission chain provided the foundation for an ...

  9. List of Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

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    Asistencia of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia. The chapel serves as a parish church and museum. Estancias ... (Presidio of San Francisco), founded December 17, 1776;