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Mission Santa Inés (sometimes spelled Santa Ynez) was a Spanish mission in present-day Solvang, California, United States, and named after St. Agnes of Rome.Founded on September 17, 1804, by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, and was designed to relieve overcrowding ...
Chumash revolt of 1824. 19th century painting ( by Alexander Harmer) depicting Mexican soldiers under fire by Chumash forces as they advance towards La Purísima Mission. Date. February 21, 1824 – June 1824. Location. Mission Santa Inés, Mission Santa Barbara, La Purisima Mission. The Chumash revolt of 1824 was an uprising of the Chumash ...
Location in California. La Purísima Mission (the United States) Show map of California Show map of the United States Show all. Location. 2295 Purisima Road, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, California 93436. Coordinates. 34°40′13.692″N 120°25′14.2206″W. / 34.67047000°N 120.420616833°W / 34.67047000; -120.420616833. Name as ...
Esteban Tápis. Father Esteve Tapis, O.F.M. (25 August 1754 – 3 November 1825) was a Spanish missionary to the Americas . Tapis was born in Santa Coloma de Farners in the Catalan Province of Girona, and entered the novitiate of the Order of Friars Minor at Girona on 22 January 1778. [1] He was sent to New Spain in 1786, where he attended the ...
Mission Indians are the indigenous peoples of California who lived in Southern California and were forcibly relocated from their traditional dwellings, villages, and homelands to live and work at 15 Franciscan missions in Southern California and the Asistencias and Estancias established between 1796 and 1823 in the Las Californias Province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
The Mission has earned a reputation as the "Loveliest of the Franciscan Ruins." [1] The Spanish missions in California ( Spanish: Misiones españolas en California) formed a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the U.S. state of California.
The lack of good-sized timber forced the men to design mission buildings that were long and narrow. For example, the widest inside dimensions of any of the mission buildings (at San Carlos, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz) is 29 feet (8.8 m): the narrowest, at Mission Soledad, spans 16.2 feet (4.9 m).
The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians is a federally recognized tribe of Chumash, an indigenous people of California, in Santa Barbara. [2] Their name for themselves is Samala. [3] The locality of Santa Ynez is referred to as ’alaxulapu in Chumashan language. [4] [5]