Mission San Diego de Alcalá

building these structures the Spanish started to call California theirs. The first two missions built were in San Diego and Monterrey. It all started with Father Junipero Serra he was on a "sainted mission" and his goal was to convert the California native Americans into christians. By the time the Spanish were done there was 21 missions throughout California, they were made a days walk from each other. Of the 21 missions Father Junipero Serra found the first nine. Spanish exploration and settlement had

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Mission San Diego de Alcala was the first of all California missions as well as being California’s first mission church. This historical structure provides an experience and understanding into early american history and the spread of Catholicism throughout the west coast. Mission De Alcala still serves the community today as an active parish and is open to the public to tour the remnants of early life in our state. For thousands of years California was the home to the Kumeyaay native americans along

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HISTORY OF SAN DIEGO. Purpose Statement: To educate my audience on the history of San Diego, CA. INTRODUCTION I. "Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means 'a whale's vagina'.” – Ron Burgundy II. San Diego has been inhabited for over 12000 years by 4 main groups. Over 7500 years before the Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed. Do you know who these groups are? III. We will go on a chronological trip through the history of the city of San Diego. First

to Northern America, settling in California, to spread Christian practices. Our very first missions was established by Father Junipero Serra. He helped establish missions such as the San Diego de Alcala and the San Antonio de Padua. Although he was one of the very first fathers that established missionaries, there were many other fathers that ran missions all across California. By 1823, the 21st mission in Sonoma was built, successfully

Table of Contents Missions………………………………………………………….. Establishment of Mission San Juan Bautista……………………..……………………………………. Location………………………………………………………….. Building Plan……………………………………………………………... Tribes at the Mission…………………………………………………………… Conflict on the Missions………………………………………………………….. Why the Native Indians lived on the Mission…………………………………………………………… Life at the Missions………………………………………………………… Influence of Mission on people………………………………

Junipero Serra. A Franciscan Missionary, he served as “Padre Presidente” of the California Spanish Mission System in the mid to late 18th century. Father Serra founded and oversaw a mission in Baja California and the first nine of twenty-one Spanish missions in California from San Diego to San Francisco, in what was then Alta California in the Province of Las Californias, New Spain. The Spanish missions themselves were used by the Spanish to convert the indigenous tribes

Nursing Community Description and Interpretation of Data America’s Finest City, San Diego, California is located in the southern most county in California, San Diego County. “San Diego is the second largest city in California”, (Wikipedia, 2013). Bordered by Orange and Riverside Counties to the north, Imperial County to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Baja California, Mexico to the south. San Diego is known for it’s mild but, diverse climate. “Average temperatures are 60-80 degrees