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Mission San Gabriel Arcángel (Spanish: Misión de San Gabriel Arcángel) is a Californian mission and historic landmark in San Gabriel, California.It was founded by the Spanish Empire on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary," September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become twenty-one Spanish missions in California. [10]
San Gabriel (Spanish for "St. Gabriel") is a city located in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California. At the 2010 census , the population was 39,718. San Gabriel was founded by the Spanish in 1771, when Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was established by Saint Junípero Serra .
Mission Road in San Gabriel (1880). San Gabriel township remained the center of Gabrieleño life into the 20th century. In 1852, Hugo Reid wrote a series of letters for the Los Angeles Star from the center of the Gabrieleño community in San Gabriel township, describing Gabrieleño life and culture. Reid himself was married to a Gabrieleño ...
The Mission San Gabriel Museum has reopened after a devastating 2020 fire, with an exhibit that aims to more inclusively represent the Indigenous communities it colonized.
Toypurina (1760–1799) [1] was a Kizh [2] [3] indian medicine woman from the Jachivit village. [4] She is notable for her opposition to the colonial rule by Spanish missionaries in California, and for her part in the planned 1785 rebellion against the Mission San Gabriel.
During colonization, the people were referred to as Gabrieleño, [a] a name derived from the Spanish missions built on their land: Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. [b] The name of Tongva has been justifiably criticized by the Kizh Nation, who see it as coming into existence in 1905 [18] from the accounts of one ethnographer, C. Hart Merriam.
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El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.