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The Spanish missions in California — originally built between 1769 and 1833, with their sites & restored structures in present-day California. Founded in the Spanish colonial Las Californias (1768–1804) and Alta California (1804–1822) provinces, and the Mexican Alta California territory (1822–1848).
San Diego 32°47′4″N 117°6′23″W / 32.78444°N 117.10639°W / 32.78444; -117.10639 ( Mission San Diego de Serves as a parish church and museum.
Mission San Fernando Rey de España was the 17th of 21 Franciscan missions established in Alta California. The Rancho of Francisco Reyes (then the Alcalde of the Pueblo de Los Ángeles ), which included the agricultural settlement of Achooykomenga worked by Ventureño Chumash , Fernandeño (Tongva), and Tataviam laborers, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] was ...
Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando was a 116,858-acre (472.91 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, granted in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Eulogio F. de Celis. [1]
Rancho Ex-Mission San Diego was a 58,875-acre (238.26 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California, given in 1846 by Governor Pio Pico to Santiago Argüello. [1]
Portion of an 1880 map depicting the western San Fernando Valley, with Rancho El Escorpión highlighted. María del Espíritu Santo Chijulla, born in 1836, was baptized in the San Fernando Mission. Her father Odón was, most likely, one of the forty petitioners who received a grant from governor Micheltorena on May 3, 1843.
In 1845, California Governor Pio Pico confiscated the lands of Mission San Diego de Alcalá. He granted eleven square leagues (about 48,800 acres, 197 km 2) of the El Cajon Valley to Dona Maria Antonio Estudillo, daughter of José Antonio Estudillo, alcalde of San Diego, to repay a $500 government obligation. The grant was originally called ...
10818 San Diego Mission Rd. San Diego, California 92108-2429: Coordinates: Name as founded: La Misión San Diego de Alcalá [1] English translation: The Mission of Saint Didacus of Acalá [2] Patron: Saint Didacus of Alcalá [1] Nickname(s) "Mother of the Alta California Missions" [3]