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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dolores Mission
		San Francisco Solano was established at Sonóma, to avoid confusion, it was popularly called Dolores, that is to say, the mission on the Dolores.
		The founders of the mission were Father Francisco Palou, the historian, and Father Pedro Benito Cambon.
		From 1785 to the end of 1832, for which period we have the reports, the mission raised 120,000 bushels of wheat, 70,226 bushels of barley, 18,260 bushels of corn, 14,386 bushels of beans, 7296 bushels of peas, and 905 bushels of lentils and garvanzos or horse beans.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05099b.htm (753 words)

	Mission San Francisco de Asis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1817, Mission San Rafael Arcángel was established as an asistencia to act as a hospital for the Mission, though it would later be granted full mission status in 1822.
		The Mission District is the name of the San Francisco neighborhood adjacent to the Mission.
		The Mission District was one of the few areas of San Francisco not destroyed by the fires that sprang up in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_Asis (368 words)

	SAN FRANCISCO - LoveToKnow Article on SAN FRANCISCO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The San Francisco Institute of Art, conducted by the San Francisco Art Association (organized 1872), known until the fire of 1906 as the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, was deeded (1893) to the Regents of the State University in trust for art purposes by a later owner.
		San Franciscos permanence as one of the greatest ports of the country is assured by its magnificent position, the wealth of its back country, and its command of trans-Pacific and trans-continental commercial routes.
		Under this charter San Francisco throve despite much corruption, and it was because the provisions of the State Constitution of 1879 seemed likely to compel the adoption of another charter that the city decisively rejected that constitution.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SAN_FRANCISCO.htm (5850 words)

	MISSION SAN SAN FRANCISCO SOLANO
		By 1832 the mission had 27 rooms in the convento or priest's quarters, with a great adobe church at the east end, and a wooden storehouse (the original mission chapel) at the west end.
		Mission San Francisco Solano was the 21st mission in Alta California, and the only one built under the Mexican era.
		San Francisco Solano, the patron saint of the mission, was a 17th Century missionary to the Peruvians.
	www.napanet.net /~sshpa/mission.htm (713 words)

	Encyclopedia of San Francisco
		Franciscan friar, Roman Catholic priest, co-founder with Fray Benito Cambón of Mission San Francisco de Asís (Dolores) and the assistencia of San Pedro y San Pablo.
		An unsuccessful effort was made in 1940-1941 to transfer the remains of Palóu to San Francisco from their assumed resting place at the College of San Fernando in Mexico City.
		First historian of California." With José Joaquin Moraga, Fray Francisco Palóu may be considered a co-founder of the Spanish Empire community that evolved into the modern City of San Francisco.
	www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com /articles/p/palouFrancisco.html (522 words)

	USS San Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		San Francisco’s first permanent settlements were the Presidio, established in 1776 by the Spanish, and the Mission San Francisco do Asis, founded by the Franciscan fathers at about the same time.
		San Francisco’s cosmopolitan character comes primarily from the fact that three out of every ten inhabitants of the Bay Area were born outside of the United States or have at least one foreign-born parent.
		SAN FRANCISCO later participated in a final show of force in the Gulf of Pohai, which led to the surrender of the Japanese naval forces in Korea.
	www.guam.navy.mil /711.htm (918 words)

	Mission San Rafael Arcangel
		Mission San Rafael, second most northerly on the El Camino Real and second to the last to be founded, began its existence as an "assistencia", or helper mission to Mission Dolores in San Francisco.
		Mission San Rafael Arcangel was founded on December 14, 1817 by Father Vicente de Sarria under the patronage of San Rafael Arcángel, the angel of bodily healing.
		The wheat crop was 17,905 bushels and the bean crop was 1,360 bushels.
	www.athanasius.com /camission/san_rafael.htm (2633 words)

	Encyclopedia of San Francisco
		He is credited with being the founder of Mission San Gabriel and asistencia of San Pedro y San Pablo, and co-founder, with Fray Francisco Palóu, of Mission San Francisco de Asís.
		One of his most significant accomplishments was the solid construction of the mission church of San Francisco de Asís, which still stands.
		Co-founder, with Fray Francisco Palóu, of Mission San Francisco de Asís
	www.sfhistoryencyclopedia.com /articles/c/cambonPedro.html (265 words)

	Santa Clara University - Mission Santa Clara de Asis - History of Mission Santa Clara de Asis
		The diarists of these expeditions, such as Juan Crespí, Francisco Palóu, Pedro Font, and Juan Bautista de Anza, described the Santa Clara Valley as a broad grassy plain covered with oaks and well-watered with marshy creeks and rivers, whose courses could be traced from a distance by the trees growing along their banks.
		The soldiers arrived in San Francisco at the end of December, and on Jan. 6, 1777, Fray de la Peña, the soldiers, and the lieutenant commander of the Presidio started the journey down the peninsula.
		The ceremony was not entirely solemn; Fray de la Peña reported that "the celebration was carried on amid the ringing of bells, salutes from the muskets of the soldiers and with the fireworks on the Mission." The following day, Sunday, May 16, Serra celebrated the first Mass in the new church.
	www.scu.edu /visitors/mission/history.cfm (2847 words)

	P.O.V. - Flag Wars . A Tale of Three Cities . San Francisco, CA \| PBS
		Mission San Francisco de Asís, popularly known as Mission Dolores, was founded in 1776 and moved to its current location on 16th and Dolores Streets in 1783.
		Disinvestment in the Mission began to take its toll, and by the late 1960s, the Mission District was marked by a high crime rate relative to the rest of San Francisco.
		The Mission's still relatively affordable housing became a magnet for a young, upwardly-mobile population attracted by the area's affordability, transit access (the neighborhood has two BART stops and is well-served by MUNI buses), proximity to Downtown, and an increasingly hip nightlife scene.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2003/flagwars/special_talesf.html (860 words)

	Mission San Francisco de Asís - June 29, 1776 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On June 29, Fras Francisco Palou and Benito Cambon celebrated mass in honor of the feast of Saints Peter and Paul on the shores of the small lake.
		Of the twenty-one California Missions, this is the third most northerly, and the sixth to be established under the direction of Father Junipero Serra.
		Mission San Francisco de Asís is situated in the very heart of a bustling international seaport city on a tree-lined boulevard, overshadowed by a majestic Basilica on the north and quaint Victorian row houses and apartments on the south.
	www.earlenesroots.com /missionsfdeasis.html (363 words)

	U.S. Court of Appeals Expansion Project, Southeast Archaeological Center, National Park Service
		The first European boat to explore the waters of Mission Bay was a cayuco, or dugout, made from the trunk of a redwood taken from the bank of the Carmel River and brought into San Francisco Bay on August 2, 1775, aboard the San Carlos.
		The presidio was dedicated on September 17, 1776, and the Mission of San Francisco de Asis on October 9, 1776, both with all the fanfare, firepower and ceremony the Spanish could muster.
		This same year, 1851, San Francisco, as the successor to the pueblo of Yerba Buena, had put in a claim to the Land Commission for its four square leagues of land, a claim that was finally patented by the United States in 1884.
	www.cr.nps.gov /seac/earlyday.htm (2334 words)

	SFGov: Visitors: San Francisco Historical Information
		The San Francisco County government was established on 1 April while on April 15th the City of San Francisco was incorporated by act of the legislature.
		San Francisco was hit on Oct. 8th, 1865, by a great earthquake that caused extensive damage in the City.
		San Francisco is a growing city as the US prepares to enter World War I. A portion of Lombard Street was created into “the crookedest street in the world.” Also the Steinhart Aquarium and Golden Gate Park, opened to public (29 Sep).
	www.sfgov.org /site/visitor_index.asp?id=8091 (1280 words)

	Mission San Francisco de Asís
		There is no active church at the mission although the Mission Dolores Basilica next door is an active church and special services are held in the Mission church at times.
		The Mission is located in the San Francisco Mission District at the corner of 16
		Parking may be a problem as this is very close to downtown San Francisco (on Sunday, people park on both sides of the median and in the median by the church and Mission to attend services); also, watch out for one-way streets in the area.
	www.missiontour.org /sanfrancisco (377 words)

	California Missions Foundation - Mission San Francisco de Asis
		Mission San Francisco de Asis (also known as Mission Dolores) is the oldest intact nave structure in California, and the oldest building in San Francisco.
		Mission Dolores was the sixth mission, founded on June 29, 1776 by Fr.
		It was one of the few buildings in San Francisco to survive the 1906 earthquake and subsequent fire.
	www.missionsofcalifornia.org /missions/mission06.html (312 words)

	San_Francisco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It was the last mission built in California, which is the 21st mission.
		Mission San Francisco is on the northwestern side of California.
		Many of the indians that lived on the mission were neophytes from Mission San Rafael and Mission San Francisco de Asis.
	www.csupomona.edu /~dririe/project/Wpages/PEARSON/San_Francisco.htm (202 words)

	Mission Dolores: Birthplace of the San Francisco Bay Area
		The Mission is the oldest intact building in the City of San Francisco and the only intact Mission Chapel in the chain of 21 established under the direction of Father Junipero Serra.
		Mission Dolores Elementary School, founded by three Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1856 on orchard land surrounding Mission San Francisco de Asis, the oldest mission church in California.
		He was at Mission Dolores in San Francisco for its 224th birthday celebration recently and led a prayer in the churchyard to the four directions of the world.
	www.sfmission.com /sfbirthplace (2668 words)

	Mission de Asis, San Francisco
		Located at Dolores street, the building, the mission cemetery, and the later built basilica nearby are among most visited San Francisco attractions.
		In 1845 the "missions were destroyed, neophytes dispersed, and one of the most idealistic adventures" came to the end.
		Mission de Asis used lands as far as across the Bay.
	www.virtuar.com /ysf2/location/mission_de_asis (376 words)

	Mission San Francisco de Asis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Mission San Francisco de Asis is the 6th mission founded in California.
		At this time, the bay known as San Francisco had not been known of and the name was actually assigned to what is now Drakes Bay.
		For years, the mission was faced with the problem of neophytes (converted natives) running away to join their friends across the bay.
	www.papermodelsonline.com /missions/mission_san_francisco_de_asis.html (740 words)

	Sonoma Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		San Francisco Solano Mission, founded in 1823, was the last and most northerly of e 21 Franciscan missions of Alta California.
		And it was the 21 Franciscan missions of Alta California.
		The new mission was called San Francisco Solano in honor of the missionary to the Indians of Peru.
	www.iktome.com /svvb/mission.html (349 words)

	San Francisco History - Seventy-five Years in San Francisco, Appendix D.
		The President of the Missions having become fully convinced of the impossibility of establishing that of San Francisco immediately at its own port, as he lacked the means of transportation by sea, and in order to proceed by land, additional exploring parties were deemed necessary.
		The Mission of San Francisco, which at one time was situated on a desert, yet protected by the hand of Providence, to-day may be seen nearly in the centre of this populous city of the same name.
		This Mission was the fourth daughter of that of San Francisco; the first having been that of Santa Clara, as I have already said, the second that of Santa Cruz, which founded on the 29th of August, 1791, and the third was that of San José, founded on the 11th of June, 1797.
	www.sfgenealogy.com /sf/history/hb75yap7.htm (7944 words)

	California Mission History: San Francisco de Asís
		Initially the Indians were greatly attracted to the mission, but ample food and protection from enemies had to be measured against fatal epidemics of measles, the worldly attractions of the pueblo, and the free life of "unenlightened" brothers across the bay.
		The oldest building in fabulous San Francisco, the mission church came through the great earthquake and fire of 1906 unscathed.
		Modern Mission Dolores Basilica and the teeming city by the Golden Gate crowd around the venerable church, which is the only remaining mission building.
	www.californiamissions.com /cahistory/dolores.html (364 words)

	USS San Francisco (SSN 711)
		USS SAN FRANCISCO was built at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia and was commissioned on 24 April 1981.
		In January of 1995, SAN FRANCISCO was awarded the 1994 Commander Submarine Squadron SEVEN "T" for excellence in tactical operations.
		In 2000, SAN FRANCISCO changed homeport to Norfolk, Va., and on December 18, 2002, the submarine again changed homeport to Apra, Guam.
	navysite.de /ssn/ssn711.htm (1182 words)

	California Missions, Footsteps of History, Mission San Francisco de Asis, California history
		The climate in San Francisco was cold and damp which did not help the local Coastonoan Indians who came to the mission.
		Mission San Rafael was built as a hospital mission in 1817, first as just an asistencia mission to San Francisco, but later approved as a full-fledged mission.
		The mission was not successful in growing crops near the mission, but had to rely on land it owned almost 20 miles away.
	www.usacitiesonline.com /footstepsofhistory/californiamissions/casanfranciscocamissions.htm (697 words)

	Asis de francisco mission san, - PressAnyKey - Mission San Francisco de Asis
		Mission San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores) Mission Dolores, the sixth mission, was founded June 26, 1776 by Father Francisco Palou.
		Mission San Francisco de Asís is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco and the sixth religious settlement established as part of the California
		Mission Dolores Cemetery · Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) · San Francisco de Asis (Mission Dolores) · San Francisco Cemeteries · San
	xn--44qx5q4yfolat60gofo.com /?q=asis-de-francisco-mission-san (1386 words)

	Mission Trail Today - Mission San Francisco de Asis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Mission San Franciso de Asis sits in the heart of a major city.
		The cemetery was used in the Motion Picture Vertigo along with Mission San Juan Bautista.
		Long ago, all the cemeteries in the City of San Francisco were moved outside of town with three exceptions.
	www.missiontrailtoday.com /code/mission06.htm (332 words)

	San Francisco de Asis Mission
		The San Francisco de Asis Mission was the 6th mission, founded on October 9, 1776.
		The San Francisco de Asis Mission is located at 16th and Dolores Streets, San Francisco, California.
		In 1857, the mission was returned to the Catholic Church and restored.
	www.kidport.com /RefLIB/UsaHistory/Missions/SanFranAsis.htm (207 words)

	Mission San Francisco de Asís
		The Spaniards discovered San Francisco Bay in 1769 and sent explorer Juan Bautista de Anza on a legendary march from northwestern Mexico to the bay area with more than two hundred settlers, a garrison of soldiers and a thousand head of cattle.
		They settled at Arroyo de los Dolores and an assistant of Padre Serra's, Padre Francisco Palou, consecrated the site on June 29, 1776, five days before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
		Mission Dolores, as it is known locally, is the oldest intact building in San Francisco.
	www.missionart.com /hSFdA/p-SFdA.html (90 words)

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