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Mission La Purísima Concepción, ... At the mission there were also 3,230 cattle, 5,400 sheep, 306 horses, and 39 mules. In the same year, there was a harvest of 690 ...
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]
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.
To sustain a mission, the padres needed colonists or converted indigenous Americans, called neophytes, to cultivate crops and tend livestock in the volume needed to support a fair-sized establishment. A scarcity of imported materials and of skilled laborers compelled the colonizers to employ simple building materials and methods.
Mission La Purísima Concepción: ... An estancia or estância is a Spanish or Portuguese term describing private landholdings used for farming or raising livestock ...
The ruins of Mission La Purísima Concepción near Lompoc, California, c. 1900. La Purisima Mission: in 1845 all land and buildings were sold. The church turned to ruins over time. The ruins were returned to the Church in 1874. [38] Mission San José was sold to private interests in 1845 for $12,000. All buildings decayed and the land was not ...
Ex-Mission la Purisima: 1845 Pio Pico: Jonathan Temple: 14,750 acres (5,969 ha) 389 SD Los Berros: Santa Barbara: La Laguna: 1845 Pio Pico: Octaviano Gutierrez 48,704 acres (19,710 ha) 21 SD Santa Ynez: Santa Barbara: Mission Vieja de la Purisma: 1845 Pio Pico: Joaquín Carrillo and José Antonio Carrillo 4,414 acres (1,786 ha) 61 SD Lompoc ...
José Gorgonio and his son José Ramon, were Native Americans at the Mission Santa Clara de Asís.In 1844 Gorgonio sold the one square league Rancho La Purísima Concepción to Juana Briones de Miranda (1802-1889), the daughter of Marcos Briones, who came with his father Ygnacio Briones to San Diego in 1769 and Maria Tapia, who came with her parents to San Francisco with the Anza Party.