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La Purísima Mission is now part of the La Purísima Mission State Historic Park within the California State Parks System. Located outside Lompoc, California , the 1,934-acre (783 ha) park was established in 1935. [ 21 ]
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 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 ...
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.
In 1628 the Spanish established Mission La Purísima Concepción de Hawikuh at this pueblo. The Spanish attempted to suppress the Zuni religion, and introduced the encomienda forced-labor system. In 1632, the Hawikuh Zuni rebelled, burned the church, and killed the priest.
Following the secularization of Mission La Purísima in 1834, the padres moved to Mission Santa Inés. [3] The abandoned mission was sold in 1845 by Pío Pico to Jonathan Temple for $1,100. In 1850, Temple sold the property to José Ramón Malo (1812-1859) for $1,500. [4] Malo was the grantee of the adjoining Rancho Santa Rita.
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