Fun and Interesting Facts about the Spanish missions in California!
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Fun and Interesting Facts about the Spanish missions in California!
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Mission San Francisco de Solano, at Sonoma, traded with the Russian settlement at Fort Ross.
The Klingon language, spoken in the fictional Star Trek universe, was created by linguist Marc Okrand.
It is loosely based on the languages of the Miwok and Coastal Chumash Indians. Some people who have studied these languages claim they can understand the Klingons in the Star Trek movies.
Mission San Luis Obispo was built in a valley where explorers had encountered bears. The bears were an important source of food for the early settlers.
San Juan Capistrano is famed for the migrating swallows that return to nest each March 19 (St. Joseph’s Day).
San Francisco de Solano, in Sonoma, was founded on July 4th, 1823. It was the last of the California Missions.
The missions were often poorly defended, and were threatened by pirates who sometimes raided coastal settlements.
Mission San Buenaventura, at Ventura, was threatened by the French pirate Hippolyte Bouchard in 1818. Residents took their valuables and herds and moved inland several miles until the danger passed.
La Purísima Concepción is reputed by many people to be haunted. It has been featured on paranormal television shows Ghost Adventures and Ghost Hunters, and visited by the Los Angeles Paranormal Association.
The mission, located in Lompoc California, is a California State historic landmark and is operated as a living history museum.
San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) and San Juan Capistrano we founded in 1776, the year the US Declaration of Independence was signed.
Five California missions were founded in the years before the US Declaration of Independence! The first, San Diego de Alcalá, was founded in 1769.
The scallop sea shell, which symbolizes Saint James as well as mission pilgrims, is found in arches, carvings, and painted decorations on more than half of the California Missions.
Just one mission, San Francisco de Solano (in Sonoma), was founded after Mexico declared independence for Spain. The first twenty California missions were founded under Spanish rule.