*** Welcome to piglix ***

Mission San Francisco Solano

Mission San Francisco Salono
Mission San Francisco Salono
Mission San Francisco Solano circa 1910
Mission San Francisco Salono is located in California
Mission San Francisco Salono
Location of Mission San Francisco Salono in California
Location 114 East Spain Street
Sonoma, California
Coordinates 38°17′38″N 122°27′21″W / 38.29389°N 122.45583°W / 38.29389; -122.45583Coordinates: 38°17′38″N 122°27′21″W / 38.29389°N 122.45583°W / 38.29389; -122.45583
Name as founded Misión San Francisco Solano
Patron Saint Francis Solano of Montilla, Spain
Nickname(s) "Sonoma Mission"
Founding date July 4, 1823 
Founding priest(s) Father José Altimíra 
Founding Order 21
Military district Fourth
Native tribe(s)
Spanish name(s)
Coast Miwok, Patwin, Pomo, Suisunes, Wappo
Native place name(s) Huchi 
Baptisms 1,563 total
Marriages 359 total
Burials 896 total
population 996 in 1832
Governing body California Department of Parks and Recreation
Current use Museum
Reference no.
  1. 3
Website
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=479

Mission San Francisco Solano was the 21st, last and northernmost mission in Alta California. It was the only mission built in Alta California after Mexico gained independence from Spain. The difficulty of its beginning demonstrates the confusion resulting from that change in governance. The California Governor wanted a robust Mexican presence on the Pacific coast from moving further inland. A young Franciscan friar from Mission San Francisco de Asis wanted to move to a location with a better climate and access to a larger number of potential converts.

The Mission was successful given its short eleven year life but was smaller in number of converts and with lower productivity and diversity of industries than the older California missions.

The mission building is now part of the Sonoma State Historic Park and is located in the city of Sonoma, California.

Fr. José Altimira age 33, arrived from Barcelona, Spain to serve at Mission San Francisco de Asís. The mission was not thriving because of its climate and had established a medical asistencia ("sub-mission") in San Rafael to help the mission’s ill neophytes (baptized Native Americans) recover their health. California Governor Luis Argüello was interested in blocking the Russians at Bodega Bay and Fort Ross from moving further inland. Together they developed and presented to the party church authorities and the territory (legislature) a plan for moving Mission San Francisco de Asís and the San Rafael asistencia to a new location north of the Bay. The legislature approved but the church authorities did not respond (they had forwarded the plan to their superiors in Mexico). Under the old Spanish regime, founding a new mission required the approval of both New Spain's Bishop and the King’s Viceroy.


...
Wikipedia

...