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2. Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Wikipedia

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   The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 by Father Fermín Lasuén who, with the assistance of Fray Francisco Dumetz and in the presence of troops and natives, performed the ceremonies and dedicated the mission to San Fernando Rey de España, making it the fourth mission site he had established; ten children were baptized on the first day ...

3. Fermín de Lasuén - Wikipedia

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   Fermín de Lasuén. Fermín de Francisco Lasuén de Arasqueta (7 June 1736 – Mission de San Carlos (California), 26 June 1803) was a Basque [1] Franciscan missionary to Alta California president of the Franciscan missions there, and founder of nine of the twenty-one Spanish missions in California .

4. Architecture of the California missions - Wikipedia

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   e. The architecture of the California missions was influenced by several factors, those being the limitations in the construction materials that were on hand, an overall lack of skilled labor, and a desire on the part of the founding priests to emulate notable structures in their Spanish homeland. While no two mission complexes are identical ...

5. Mission Santa Inés - Wikipedia

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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 ...

6. Convento Building (Mission San Fernando) - Wikipedia

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   The Convento is a large two-story building, measuring approximately 243 feet (74 m) long and 50 feet (15 m) wide. It has four-foot-thick adobe walls and was built in stages between approximately 1808 and 1822. [2] The long portico, sometimes referred to as the colonnade, in front of the building has 20 arches and is the most recognized image of ...

7. Butterfield Overland Mail in California - Wikipedia

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   The Cahuenga stop was between San Fernando Mission station and Los Angeles and the junction point between divisions one and two of the route. The Butterfield Overland Mail in California was created by the United States Congress on March 3, 1857, and operated until June 30, 1861.