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	San Gabriel, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, established in 1771, is the cradle of the San Gabriel Valley and one of many missions in California.
		The upper middle-class northern part of San Gabriel (near affluent San Marino) tends to be heavily Taiwanese, whereas the Chinese Vietnamese and Mainland Chinese live in the working-class sections toward the southern and eastern portions of the city (near poorer Rosemead).
		San Gabriel Square, constructed in the early 1990s in a mediterranean style, is the largest Asian shopping center in the area and is especially popular with affluent immigrants from Taiwan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Gabriel,_California (1266 words)

	Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The economy at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was similar to the other missions in that they planted wheat, corn, and grapes, and raised cattle and sheep.
		Mission San Gabriel is located near to what became the city of Los Angeles, California.
		The mission's church was used as a parish church for the city of San Gabriel from 1862 until 1908.
	1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/m/mi/mission_san_gabriel_arcangel_1.html (170 words)

	Mission San Gabriel Arcangel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the "Pride of the Missions," was founded on September 8 (the "Birthday of Mary"), 1771 in present day Montebello by Padres Pedro Benito Cambón and Angel Fernández de la Somera.
		The Mission's chapel functioned as a parish church for the City of San Gabriel from 1862 until 1908, when the Claretian Missionary Fathers came to San Gabriel and began the job of rebuilding and restoring the Mission.
		The San Gabriel Civic Auditorium, a classic example of "Mission Revival Style Architecture", was built in 1927 as the "Mission Playhouse" by poet, Los Angeles Times columnist, and author John Steven McGroarty specifically as a venue for his production of The Mission Play which chronicled the history of California.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mission_San_Gabriel_Arcangel (826 words)

	Mission San Gabriel Arcángel - September 8, 1771
		The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was damaged in the earthquake of 1812, as were many of the missions in California.
		Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was located on one of the main routes used by travelers from Mexico to Alto California Travelers who were coming from the eastern United States to the West Coast.
		The mission was often very crowded with the military, whose behavior was usually very disruptive to the missionaries as well as the Native Americans living within the mission.
	www.earlenesroots.com /missionsangabrielarcangel.html (577 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions: San Gabriel
		In the 1880s, San Gabriel was "a wild little town with eighteen saloons within a two-block area." Most of its several hundred residents were not particularly pleased with its reputation and in the early 1890s voted to eliminate the saloons.
		Nearly from the outset, the padres at the San Gabriel Mission tested the fertility of the lands belonging to the mission, successfully growing limes, pomegranates, figs, peaches, pears, and apples.
		Even after the mission's influence declined, the San Gabriel Valley continued to be a land filled with grazing sheep and cattle, fruit orchards, and fields of grain, as Mexican and American ranchers and farmers maintained the agricultural traditions of the Franciscan padres.
	www.colapublib.org /history/sangabriel/faq.html (1803 words)

	Kenneth A. Larson - Mission San Gabriel Arcangel - Photo Gallery
		San Gabriel Arcángel was one of the most prosperous missions and known as The Queen of the Missions.
		Mission San Gabriel was the winery for all the missions and the largest winery in California.
		This structure is across the street from the Mission at the corner of the San Gabriel Civic Auditorium.
	www.kenlarson.net /photos/california/missions/code/mission04.htm (694 words)

	San Gabriel Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California.
		It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire.
		The remaining white population in the San Gabriel Valley resides primarily in the communities of Pasadena, Glendora, Sierra Madre, Charter Oak, and in the northern part of Covina (the southern part is increasingly Hispanic).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/San-Gabriel-Valley.htm (3110 words)

	San Gabriel, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		San Gabriel has a massive, diverse, and vibrant ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese American business district on Valley Boulevard, with three major Asian supermarkets, numerous mini-malls, and an endless row of small businesses.
		The largest Asian shopping center in the area is called San Gabriel Square, which was constructed in the early 1990s to Mediterranean-style architecture with 99 Ranch Market as the main business, and boasting an upscale department store, chick booteeks, jewelry shops, and a multitude of authentic Asian restaurants.
		The shopping center, called the San Gabiel Square, replaced a dying drive-in theater and the parking lot was built over a flood channel.
	www.kiwipedia.com /en/san-gabriel--california.html (781 words)

	San Marino Tribune - serving San Marino, CA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Visitors to the historic San Gabriel Mission District and District museums are invited to step-back-in-history to discover and explore the rich cultural and historical tapestry that has shaped San Gabriel and the region.
		With the support and encouragement of the Mission District Partnership, museum leaders and city of San Gabriel staff met in late 2004 to discuss partnership opportunities for the museums, and develop strategies to strengthen overall goals, and goals specific to each museum.
		Rich in the history and traditions of early California, the mission was founded on Sept. 8, 1771 as the fourth of the 21 California missions.
	www.sanmarinotribune.com /tribune/read/publisher_28/2005-02-17.05 (523 words)

	More California Mission History: San Gabriel
		The mission prospered from the first and the Indians, attracted by the solemn pageantry of the Franciscan Mass, grew eager to participate in the religious rites and help with the erection of the walls.
		The major difficulty was a long series of exasperating annoyances visited upon the mission and its Indian neophytes by the secular "colonists," established at the nearby pueblo of Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciúncula, now America's third largest city.
		San Gabriel's church was closed to the public for a time because of relatively recent earthquake damage, but mission treasures are intact and the grounds remain open.
	www.californiamissions.com /morehistory/sangabriel.html (1299 words)

	Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Mission San Gabriel Arcangel is the 4th mission founded in California.
		The mission was constantly overrun by the military, whose behavior constantly tried the patience of the mission fathers.
		Due to this element, the mission was in constant trouble with the natives.
	www.papermodelsonline.com /missions/mission_san_gabriel_arcangel.html (894 words)

	City of San Gabriel
		Founded in 1771, the San Gabriel Mission is the 4th of the 21 California Missions to be established.
		Be sure to visit the Mission Compount to see how life was lived so many years ago when residents made their own soap and candles from tallow, leather goods from cattle hides, wine from their own grapes, and everything else they needed to survive so far from any source of supply.
		San Gabriel grew to be the "Pride of the Missions" and supplied many of the other Missions and settlements with the necessities of life from its lands which stretched from the ocean to the mountains and east to the Riverside area.
	www.sangabrielcity.com /pointsofinterest/historicalwalk01.shtml (254 words)

	LA INC. The Convention & Visitors Bureau \| Press Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana, the 17th in the chain, was one of two established in Los Angeles.
		Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, nine miles east of downtown Los Angeles, is the oldest structure in California south of Monterey.
		The mission is part of a complete religious facility that includes two schools and a hospital as well as the church and cemeteries.
	www.lapressroom.info /jsp/pk4.jsp (1135 words)

	San Gabriel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mission San Gabriel Arcangel was founded on September 8, 1771, by two priests, Father Cambon and Father Angel Somera under the instruction of the person the head of all the missions, Father Junipero Serra.
		The mission was too close to the San Gabriel River.
		What we thought about San Gabriel Arcangel Mission was the legend of how a priest once successfuly protected the mission during an Indian attack.
	www.lcusd.net /pcr/jbentz/fourth_bilo/missionbilo/sangabriel.html (288 words)

	City of San Gabriel
		RETURN TO The City of San Gabriel can trace its history to the founding of the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in 1771 by Father Junipero Serra.
		San Gabriel has often been referred to as the “Birthplace of the Los Angeles Region” as it was from the Mission San Gabriel, in 1781, the Pobladores left to found the Pueblo de Los Angeles at what is now known as Olvera Street in Downtown Los Angeles.
		By 1852 San Gabriel became one of the first townships in the County of Los Angeles.
	www.sangabrielcity.com /cityservices/fire/adminhistory.shtml (473 words)

	Mission San Gabriel Arcangel
		The Mission's name also came to be associated with the native Shoshone people of this land that continue to be known as the "Gabrielenos." Together, the Gabrielenos and Franciscans successfully built the Mission into what Father Serra predicted it would become -- The Pride of the Missions.
		In 1949, the Mission High School was established to further the Claretian mission and outreach to the youth of the community.
		The Eucharist is today celebrated at San Gabriel Mission in the English, Spanish, and Vietnamese languages, providing the Mission community with a beautiful opportunity to be a prophetic reminder of the unity of God's Reign as the community gathers at the table of the Lord.
	www.athanasius.com /camission/gabriel.htm (2165 words)

	SBC Pacific Bell Uncommon Mission : California Missions : San Gabriel Arcángel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		San Gabriel was a very prosperous mission, with abundant crops and cattle, hundreds of fruit trees, and, at one time, the largest winery in California.
		It is for these reasons that San Gabriel is known as the "queen" of the Missions.
		San Gabriel Mission: an assignment from Ruben H. a student at Los Amigos Elementary School, Rancho Cucamonga.
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/mission/san_gabriel_arcangel.html (303 words)

	California Mission History: San Gabriel Arcángel
		Moving overland, they crossed the San Gabriel River, and on September 8, 1771, founded the mission near the present city of Montebello.
		On that fertile plain San Gabriel became the wealthiest of all the early missions.
		The church at old Mission San Gabriel was heavily damaged by the Whittier earthquake.
	www.californiamissions.com /cahistory/sangabriel.html (336 words)

	California Missions Foundation - Mission San Gabriel
		Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was the fourth mission, founded by Frays Pedro Cambón and Ángel Somera on orders from Father Serra in 1771.
		This mission played a leading role in California History as the staging ground for 11 Mexican families traveling north and west along the De Anza/Santa Fe trail to found the city of Los Angeles Present church begun 1791; completed 1805; damaged by earthquake 1812; repaired 1828; damaged by earthquakes, 1987 and 1994.
		Although the historic mission buildings underwent comprehensive repairs following the 1987 and 1994 earthquakes, several new cracks have been observed in the north/south running interior walls as well as the west wall of the convento wing.
	www.missionsofcalifornia.org /missions/mission04.html (352 words)

	San Gabriel Mission Fiesta celebrates L.A. beginnings \| The-Tidings.com
		Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, founded Sept. 8, 1771 as the fourth of the 21 California missions, is the birthplace of the modern Los Angeles region, and was the first mission founded in what is today the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
		The Franciscan fathers administrated the mission from 1771 to 1852.
		Visitors to the mission also receive a brochure to follow a self-guided four-block historical walk of the San Gabriel Mission District, which includes City Hall, and the Mission Playhouse, now the San Gabriel Civic Auditorium.
	www.the-tidings.com /2005/0805/mission.htm (824 words)

	Mission, Museum, Gift Shop, and Grounds
		The mission is rich in the history and traditions of early California.
		San Gabriel Mission Arcángel was the fourth of 21 California missions founded.
		The mission church was built of cut stone, brick, and mortar from 1791 to 1805, and it is the oldest structure of its kind south of Monterey, CA.
	www.sangabrielmission.org /mission_giftshop_and_museum.htm (430 words)

	San_Gabriel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is the 4th mission in the state.
		The area of Mission San Gabriel is in the southwestern part of California.
		Their jobs were similar to the ones today: policemen, carrying and transporting stuff, working in the fields with the crops, and even working inside of the church.
	www.csupomona.edu /~dririe/project/Wpages/PEARSON/San_Gabriel.htm (167 words)

	Missions of California - San Gabriel Arcángel
		Mission San Gabriel Arcangel was founded September 8, 1771, by Father Junipero Serra.
		Mission San Gabriel grew to be the "Pride of the Missions".
		In 1811, San Gabriel reaped one of the largest wheat crops ever recorded by the mission chain.
	www.missionsofca.com /hcay9010.html (187 words)

	Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, San Gabriel
		This mission's church, which still serves as such today, was built by the Franciscan Antonio Cruzado in 1806, using as a model the Moorish cathedral at Cordoba, with some notable modifications.
		At the San Gabriel mission, where some 1000 Indians - called Neophytes - lived and worked, soap, leather and tallow were produced as well as barley, maize, beans, peas and lentils.
		The bells of the Mission in San Gabriel.
	planetware.com /usa/.../mission-san-gabriel-arcangel-us-ca-msga.htm (275 words)

	San Gabriel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mission San Gabriel was founded on September 8, 1771.
		This mission is nicknamed "The Queen of the Missions" because it was so prosperous.
		This mission was the fourth mission built in California.
	www.lcusd.net /pcr/jbentz/fourth_cairehu/missionhu/sangabrielkc.html (113 words)

	History of San Gabriel Arcangel Mission
		During the following years San Gabriel continued to flourish, despite the largo number of deaths among the neophytes, nearly as many as the number of baptisms.
		After secularization the wealth of the mission rapidly decreased, thousands of cattle being destroyed merely for their hides and tallow, so that by 1840 the livestock had practically disappeared.
		Most of the neophytes left the mission, though in 1844, 300 were reported as helping to attend the vineyards, all that was left of the productive property.
	www.accessgenealogy.com /native/mission/sangabreilarc.htm (683 words)

	Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
		Moved from its original site because of disruptions by the military, the new site was so prosperous this mission has the nickname "Queen of the Missions." The mission was restored to the Church in 1859.
		San Bernardino Asistencia, a sub-mission, was established in Redlands.
		The mission is at 428 S. Mission Drive just across the intersection (California Landmark 158).
	www.missiontour.org /sangabriel (304 words)

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