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Mission Santa Barbara (Spanish: Misión de Santa Bárbara) is a Spanish mission in Santa Barbara, California, United States.Often referred to as the 'Queen of the Missions', it was founded by Padre Fermín Lasuén for the Franciscan order on December 4, 1786, the feast day of Saint Barbara, as the tenth mission of what would later become 21 missions in Alta California.
v. t. e. The history of Santa Barbara, California, begins approximately 13,000 years ago with the arrival of the first Native Americans. The Spanish came in the 18th century to occupy and Christianize the area, which became part of Mexico following the Mexican War of Independence. In 1848, the expanding United States acquired the town along ...
The Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library was founded in 1967 as an independent, non-profit educational and research institution. [1] The collection of mission documents in the archive-library remain in situ from the founding of the mission system. [2] The collections include named sections, the Junipero Serra Collection (1713-1947), the ...
Mission San José*(1830–1833) Mission Santa Barbara (1833–1846) † The Rev. Payeras and the Rev. Durán remained at their resident missions during their terms as Father-Presidente, therefore those settlements became the de facto headquarters (until 1833, when all mission records were permanently relocated to Santa Barbara). [17] [notes 1] [18]
Monica I. Orozco (born in Santa Barbara, California) is a historian and archivist. She is the Director of the Santa Barbara Mission-Archive Library as well as Executive Director of Mission Santa Barbara. [1] She earned her doctorate in History at University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999, completing her dissertation entitled "Protestant ...
At Mission Santa Barbara, founding Father Ripali even went so far as to consult the works of 1st century B.C. Roman architect Vitruvius during the design phase of the project. [30] In addition to the domes, vaults, and arches, and the Roman building methods used to create them, the missions inherited several architectural features from mother ...
An architectural line drawing of the general outlay of the mission is pictured, showing major roads and the location of twenty-one features of the mission. Picture file card lists the map as coming from the book "The Early Days of Santa Barbara" by Walter A. Hawley, published in 1920.;
The rebellion began in three of the California Missions in Alta California: Mission Santa Inés, Mission Santa Barbara, and Mission La Purisima, and spread to the surrounding villages. [1] All three missions are located in present-day Santa Barbara County, California. The Chumash revolt was the largest organized resistance movement to occur ...