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La Purísima Mission was officially established in its new location on April 23, 1813. Materials salvaged from the buildings destroyed by the earthquake were used to construct the new buildings four miles northeast of the pueblo at their present location, which was known to the Chumash as Amúu, and to the Spanish as La Cañada de los Berros ...
Purissima is a ghost town in southwestern San Mateo County, California, United States, near the junction of State Route 1 and Verde Road. Purísima means "purest" in Spanish and is most commonly used in Spanish to refer to La Purísima Concepción (the Immaculate Conception) of the Virgin Mary (note historical misspelling in English resulting in double "s", or the result of the Holstein ...
Mission La Purísima, was founded west of Loreto in Baja California Sur, by the Jesuit missionary Nicolás Tamaral in 1720 and financed by the Marqués de Villapuente de la Peña and his wife the Marquesa de las Torres de Rada.
Mission La Purisima Concepción was founded along the inland route from Santa Barbara north to San Luis Obispo in 1789. The final Franciscan mission to be constructed in native Chumash territory was Santa Ynez, founded in 1804 on the Santa Ynez River with a seed population of Chumash people from Missions La Purisima and Santa Barbara.
Mission La Purísima Concepción in Lompoc, California; Rancho La Purísima Concepción in Los Altos Hills, California; Mission Puerto de Purísima Concepción near Yuma, Arizona; Misión de la Purísima Concepción de Aquico in Hawikuh Ruins, New Mexico; Mission Concepcion in San Antonio, Texas; Purísima Concepción, Las Marías, Puerto Rico ...
Location: Winterhaven, California: Name as founded: La Misión Puerto de Purísima Concepción: English translation: The Mission Port of Purest Conception: Patron: The Immaculate Conception: Founding date: October 1780: Founding priest(s) Fathers Juan Barreneche and Francisco Garcés: Founding Order: Franciscans: Native tribe(s) Spanish name(s ...
Doña Juana Briones de Miranda, considered the "Founding Mother of San Francisco, bought Rancho La Purísima Concepción in 1844.. Rancho La Purísima Concepción was a 4,439-acre (17.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1840 by Governor Juan Alvarado to José Gorgonio and his son José Ramon, Ohlone Native Americans. [1]
Rancho Mission Vieja de la Purísima was a 4,414-acre (17.86 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day northern Santa Barbara County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Joaquín Carrillo and José Antonio Carrillo. [1] The grant included the original site of Mission La Purísima Concepción, located north of present-day Lompoc. [2] [3]