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Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded as the 20th Spanish mission in the colonial province of Alta California by three priests—Father Narciso Durán from Mission San José, Father Abella from Mission San Francisco de Asís, Father Luis Gíl y Taboada from La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles—on December 14, 1817, four years before Mexico gained independence from Spain.
Interior of the capilla (chapel) at Mission San Rafael Arcángel taken in 1974. Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded on December 14, 1817, by Father Vicente Francisco de Sarría, as a medical asistencia ("sub-mission") of the San Francisco Mission to treat their sick population. It was granted full mission status in 1822.
History. On November 24, 1865, San Rafael, then a ranching community, was the site of a raid, by a large Sonoran force of about 350 Opata volunteers under the command of Col. Refugio Tanori, an Opata leader commissioned in the Mexican Imperial Army, that left an American citizen wounded. It was believed to be an attempt to capture Sonora ...
Canal Area, San Rafael, California. Coordinates: 37°57′45″N 122°30′7″W. Aerial view of the San Rafael Canal, looking west. The northern tip of the Canal Area is on the left, with Pickleweed Park in the central foreground. The Canal Area comprises two neighborhoods of San Rafael, California, designated by the city as the "Canal ...
The Marin County Civic Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is located in San Rafael, California, the county seat of Marin County, California, United States. Groundbreaking for the Civic Center Administration Building took place in 1960, after Wright's death and under the watch of Wright's protégé, Aaron Green; it was completed in 1962.
Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley [ 10 ] and Verdugo Mountains [ 11 ] regions of Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the 2020 U.S. Census the population was 196,543, [ 7 ] up from 191,719 at the 2010 census, [ 12 ] making it the 4th-most populous city in Los Angeles County and the 24th-most populous city in California.
06-70154. GNIS feature ID. 1659603. Santa Venetia is a census-designated place (CDP) in Marin County, California, United States. It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of downtown San Rafael, [5] at an elevation of 56 feet (17 m). [3] The population was 4,289 at the 2020 census.
— Excerpt from Lesson 3, "The Mission System" in the 2007 textbook California: A Changing State, Emphasis added by Deborah A. Miranda. The fourth grade is the first, and potentially only, time that California students learn about the California missions. Many textbooks and educational resources throughout history glossed over the mistreatment of Indigenous Californians in the missions and ...