The 21 California missions, listed in the order they were founded, are: 1. (1769) Mission San Diego de Alcalá 2. (1770) Mission San Carlos ...
Plans for the Alta California missions were laid out under the reign of King ...
Here are each of the 21 missions from south to north, click on the image to learn more about
The Spanish missions in Baja California were a large number of religious outposts established by Catholic religious orders, the Jesuits, the Franciscans and the ...
The first explorers and settlers of Coastal California were American Indians.
The ninth mission in the chain was founded on Easter Sunday in 1782 by Father Serra ...
Affiliated with them were the Franciscan nuns, whose order was founded at ...
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Over 54 years, four forts, or presidios, and twenty-one missions were founded ...
The Spanish law under which the California missions were founded was part of the ...
In what are now the states of Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California , missions were founded to propagate the doctrines of the Roman Catholic ...