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The mission that survives today was built between 1783 and 1797, which makes it the oldest European structure in Arizona. Labor was provided by the O'odham. [ 1 ] An outstanding example of Spanish Colonial architecture in the United States, the Mission San Xavier del Bac hosts some 200,000 visitors each year. [ 1 ]
Contact with Europeans remained infrequent until three missions were established in 1629 in what is now northeastern Arizona. In 1680, the Pueblo Revolt resulted in the destruction of all three missions, greatly limiting Spanish influence in the region. Subsequent attempts to reestablish the missions in Hopi villages were met with repeated ...
In 1699, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino arrived in the valley and decided to establish a Catholic mission. The mission church, which he named Mission San Xavier del Bac, was not completed until 1797, almost a hundred years later. [1] The City of Tucson was officially established in 1775, the year that Hugo Oconór established the Tucson Presidio.
After the O'odham rebellion of 1751 the mission was abandoned for a time. In 1752, the village was reestablished and in 1753 the church of the Mission San José de Tumacácori began construction at the present site on the west side of the Santa Cruz River. This first church structure was erected for use by the mission in 1757.
Mission San Cosme y Damián de Tucsón as seen from Sentinel Peak ('A' Mountain) in 1880. The mission would be built, near the Sobaipuri village of Chuk Shon which Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino named San Cosmé del Tucson. Here Father Kino established a visita, or "visiting chapel", of Mission San Xavier del Bac in 1692. In 1768 the visita was ...
Mission Puerto de Purísima Concepción was founded near what is now Yuma, Arizona, United States, on the California side of the Colorado River, in October 1780, by the Franciscan missionary Francisco Garcés. The settlement was not part of the California mission chain but was administered as a part of the Spanish missions in Arizona.
1867 – Tucson becomes capital of Arizona Territory. [1] 1869 – St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church built. [3] 1870 Arizona Citizen newspaper begins publication. [4] J.S. Mansfield news depot in business. [2] 1872 Public School department organized. [3] Population: 3,500 (estimate). [3] 1873 San Diego-Tucson telegraph begins operating ...
During the Spanish colonization of the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries, the Spanish Empire established many hundreds of Catholic missions throughout their colonies in the Americas. These missions were founded and staffed by numerous Catholic religious orders of regular clergy. The following is a list of these missionaries to New Spain.