California Missions and Landmarks


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Contains history of California; history and descriptions of the missions, non-church landmarks and buildings. Describes El Camino Real Association of California, which sought to memorialize the road with Mission Bell guideposts, and political history and people.










California Missions and Landmarks, El Camino Real


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California Missions and Landmarks


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CALIFORNIA MISSIONS & LANDMARK


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California Missions and Landmarks


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Excerpt from California Missions and Landmarks: El Camino Real The chain of Franciscan missions, Father Serra's rosary, is an heirloom left to us by Spain. The precious legacy was linked together by a ribbon of a roadway called El Camino Real. There were twenty-one missions, three pueblos, four presidios and seven hundred miles of roadway. The history and description of these missions, pueblos and presidios, together with landmarks connected with them or near by them, and El Camino Real, is the sub j ect of this book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




The Famous Missions of California


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"The Famous Missions of California" by William Henry Hudson is a detailed account of the historical events that took place in California during the process of bringing the Catholic religion to the region. Religious missions were undertaken at different times and have been described in detail. The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of 21 religious outposts or missions established between 1769 and 1833 in what is now the U.S. state of California.