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Missions of Central California
Contributor(s): Bellezza, Robert A. (Author)

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ISBN: 0738596809     ISBN-13: 9780738596808
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
- Travel | Food, Lodging & Transportation - Resorts & Spas
- Architecture | Buildings - Landmarks & Monuments
Dewey: 979.402
LCCN: 2012952042
Series: Images of America
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.4" W x 9.1" L (0.70 lbs) 128 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product
 
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After the discovery of Alta California, the Spanish Crown charged the first Franciscan friars to enter into the New World through Lower Baja, with a succession of conquistadors, explorers, and soldiers, on a trail called El Camino Real or The Royal Road. The settlement began in 1769 at Mission San Diego de Alcala, a new port and military presidio with buildings of mud, brushwood, and tule grass. Fr. Junipero Serra, the legendary mission presidente and founding father of nine missions, traveled along a worn path lined today by symbolic bell markers leading to many remarkable, modern cities. After 1772, settlements were spread to California s central coast region, filling with native neophytes who became the residents and builders of all mission settlements. The Spanish missions had brought dramatic changes to California s landscape and forged the underpinnings of its earliest history, founded serendipitously with the American Revolution and birth of the United States."

Contributor Bio(s): Bellezza, Robert A.: - Images of America: Missions of Central California by Robert A. Bellezza features six historic missions and presents previously unreleased photographs from the author s vintage collection of film and glass negatives, prints, and view postcards, combined with images from the Library of Congress and Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection.
 
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