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  2. Mission San Gabriel Arcángel - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Gabriel Arcángel ( Spanish: Misión de San Gabriel Arcángel) is a Californian mission and historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. It was founded by the Spanish Empire on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary ," September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become twenty-one Spanish missions in California. [10]

  3. A fire tore through Mission San Gabriel. Its museum now tells ...

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    Firefighters at the San Gabriel Mission on July 11, 2020. The fire destroyed the roof of the church and much of its interior. (Andrew Campa / Los Angeles Times) That terrifying experience was ...

  4. Mission San Buenaventura - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Buenaventura ( Spanish: Misión San Buenaventura ), formally known as the Mission Basilica of San Buenaventura, is a Catholic parish and basilica in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The parish church in the city of Ventura, California, United States, is a Spanish mission founded by the Order of Friars Minor.

  5. Tongva - Wikipedia

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    Mission Road in San Gabriel (1880). San Gabriel township remained the center of Gabrieleño life into the 20th century. In 1852, Hugo Reid wrote a series of letters for the Los Angeles Star from the center of the Gabrieleño community in San Gabriel township, describing Gabrieleño life and culture. Reid himself was married to a Gabrieleño ...

  6. Baldwin Park, California - Wikipedia

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    626 [7] FIPS code. 06-03666. GNIS feature IDs. 1652669, 2409777. Website. www .baldwinpark .com. Baldwin Park is a city located in the central San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 72,176, down from 75,390 at the 2010 census.

  7. San Gabriel Complex Fire - Wikipedia

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    San Gabriel Complex Fire. / 34.168; -117.9. The San Gabriel Complex Fire was a wildfire that burned in 2016 in the Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles County, California, United States. [1] It was the combination of two separate wildfires: the Reservoir Fire and the Fish Fire, both of which ignited on June 20. [1]

  8. Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Fernando Rey de España. / 34.2731; -118.4612. Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California.

  9. Spanish missions in California - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Gabriel Arcángel: 7,854 baptisms total (2,459 children) 1,701 people in 1817. 5,656 deaths total (2,916 children) 1,320 people in 1834. A missionary reported that three out of four children died at the mission before reaching the age of 2. 5 Mission San Fernando Rey de España: 1,367 children baptized 1,080 people in 1819