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Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá (Spanish: Misión San Diego de Alcalá, lit. The Mission of Saint Didacus of Acalá) was the second Franciscan founded mission in the Californias (after San Fernando de Velicata), a province of New Spain.
Olives (first cultivated at Mission San Diego de Alcalá) were grown, cured, and pressed under large stone wheels to extract their oil, both for use at the mission and to trade for other goods. The Rev. Serra set aside a portion of the Mission Carmel gardens in 1774 for tobacco plants, a practice that soon spread throughout the mission system.
San Diego, still little more than a village, was incorporated on March 27 as a city and was named the county seat of the newly established San Diego County. [21] The United States Census reported the population of the town as 650 in 1850 and 731 in 1860. [22] San Diego promptly got into financial trouble by overspending on a poorly designed jail.
The Presidio and Mission were originally built on a bluff above the San Diego River, Presidio Hill, which is now the site of the city-owned Presidio Park and which is immediately adjacent to Old Town State Historic Park. After five years the Mission moved to a location several miles upriver at the present site of Mission San Diego de Alcalá.
Nonextant. Asistencia of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. The site is occupied by La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles. Santa Ysabel Asistencia: 1818 Santa Ysabel: Nonextant. Asistencia of Mission San Diego de Alcalá. A new chapel was constructed in 1924.
Old Mission Dam is located about 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of the site of Mission San Diego de Alcalá, in the hills northeast of San Diego. It spans the San Diego River, which was historically a seasonal body of water which dried out in the summer. The dam is built out of stone and cement, and was 220 ft long (67 m), 13 ft wide (4.0 m) at its ...
Indians used wooden carrettas, drawn by oxen, to haul timber from as much as forty miles away (as was the case at Mission San Miguel Arcángel). At Mission San Luis Rey, however, the ingenious Father Lasuén instructed his neophyte workers to float logs downriver from Palomar Mountain to the mission site. [11]
Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá, July 16, 1769, present-day San Diego, California. Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, June 3, 1770, present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Mission San Antonio de Padua, July 14, 1771, near present-day Jolon, California, was later converted into a parish church and no longer provides any missions ...