There are almost 300 State Parks in California. Three of them are connected to the historic missions. In Santa Barbara County, there is La Purisima Mission. Santa Cruz County has a mission complex that includes a single adobe building that was once...
Our Story Map combines interactive maps with multimedia to tell a visual story about following the California Missions Trail from the City of Ventura to the City of San Luis Obispo — from Mission San Buenaventura to Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa.
The Spanish missions of California represent the state’s oldest and richest architectural legacy. Established in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century by Franciscan …
All that remains of the original mission is the church and its garden. A small museum sits at the mission with displays of Chumash …
In his latest project, travel guide and author Sanford “Sandy” Brown is making preparations to write a guidebook for the California Missions Trail, the 815-mile walking/biking itinerary…
Postcards from the first half of the 20th century give us a glimpse of the past. The route shown on the postcard below …
Mission La Purísima was originally established at a site known to the Chumash people as Algsacpi and to the Spanish as the plain of Río Santa Rosa, one mile south of Lompoc.
The Spanish missions of California represent the state’s oldest and richest architectural legacy. Established in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century by Franciscan missionaries, the
All that remains of the original mission is the church and its garden. A small museum sits at the mission with displays of Chumash Indian artifacts
In his latest project, travel guide and author Sanford “Sandy” Brown is making preparations to write a guidebook for the California Missions Trail, the 815-mile walking/biking itinerary…
Postcards from the first half of the 20th century give us a glimpse of the past. The route shown on the postcard below has the
Mission La Purísima was originally established at a site known to the Chumash people as Algsacpi and to the Spanish as the plain of Río Santa Rosa, one mile south of Lompoc.
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