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All photographs taken by Kenneth A. Larson. All rights reserved. © 2003, 2004.

Select photographs of my many visits to the California Missions build by Spain and Mexico between 1769 and 1823.


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Many of the Missions had outlying Estancias (ranchos) and Asistencias (extension or sub-missions) that provided for the agricultural needs of the Mother Missions. At one time, there was a plan to establish a second chain of missions, further inland from the first chain. This never developed, but a broken chain of Asistencias were established. There is little remaining of these asistencias and researching them is difficult. The best preserved is the still active San Antonio de Pala.

I have read reports of four asistencias in the San Diego District. Santa Ysabel was attached to San Diego de Alcala. Mission San Luis Rey de Francia had two asistencias San Antonio de Pala and Las Flores. I am still researching the fourth asistencia but have read of St. Thomas Indian Mission at Fort Yuma, California at the extreme southeast corner of California. Mission Pal and Santa Ysabel also had outlying chapels that I am researching.

Mission San Gabriel Arcangel had an Estancia near modern day Redlands. This was not a sub-mission but a rancho, so it is properly referred to as an Estancia.

The Estancia de San Francisco Xavier was a ranching out-station, and probably a religious outpost, of Mission San Fernando. The estancia was upgraded to an asistencia.

Santa Margarita de Cortona was an asistencia of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa. Established about 1787, what little remains is incorporated into the structure of a ranch barn on private land. The ranch house also incorporates parts of the original structures.

Mission San Rafael Arcángel began as an asistencia to Mission San Francisco de Asis and was upgraded to a full mission.

There may well be more and I hope to find them in time.

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