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October 9, 1960 [3] Mission San Xavier del Bac ( Spanish: La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino [1] in the center of a centuries ...
Gemco was an American chain of membership department stores that was owned by San Leandro -based Lucky Stores, a California supermarket company which eventually became part of Albertsons. Gemco operated from 1959 until closing in late 1986. A number of the west coast stores leases were sold to Target which fueled their entry into California.
The Spanish missions in the Sonoran Desert ( Spanish: Misiones jesuíticas en el desierto de Sonora) are a series of Jesuit Catholic religious outposts established by the Spanish Catholic Jesuits and other orders for religious conversions of the Pima and Tohono O'odham indigenous peoples residing in the Sonoran Desert.
Mission San Xavier del Bac: near Tucson: 1692 () Jesuits: 1692–1770, 1783–1837, 1859–present. The extant mission church was completed in 1797. Mission San Cayetano de Calabazas: Rio Rico: 1755 () Jesuits: Abandoned in 1786. Mission San José de Tumacácori: Tumacacori: 1757 () Jesuits
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) operates 410 missions [1] throughout the world, as of July 2022. Most are named after the location of the mission headquarters, usually a specific city. The geographical area a mission actually covers is typically much larger than the name may indicate; most areas of the world are ...
The property is a series of buildings scattered throughout a natural desert setting. Built in Tucson near the intersection of Swan Road and Skyline the property is now a museum open to the public. Construction began in 1951 with the open air Mission in the Sun followed by a series of other expressionistic adobe buildings.
Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón was a presidio ( colonial Spanish fort) located within Tucson, Arizona, United States. The original fortress was built by Spanish soldiers during the 18th century and was the founding structure of what became the city of Tucson. After the American arrival in 1846, the original walls were dismantled, with the ...
The San Xavier Indian Reservation ( O’odham: Wa:k) is an Indian reservation of the Tohono O’odham Nation located near Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert. The San Xavier Reservation lies in the southwestern part of the Tucson metropolitan area and consists of 111.543 sq mi (288.90 km 2) of land area, about 2.5 percent of the Tohono O ...