The local Indians were thankful to the soldiers for killing the bears, a feared enemy. Although the city of San Luis Obispo has not remained a rugged bear country, a statue of a grizzly bear sits as reminder in the mission plaza. In , four years after its founding, an Indian fired a flaming arrow onto the roof of one of the mission buildings, starting a disastrous fire that severely damaged several buildings.
After this incident, the fathers began work on making roof tiles locally, to reduce susceptibility to fire. As the city modernized, so did the mission. Mission San Luis Obispo is one of the only missions that never had to relocate; it still stands on its original site. This law stated that churches were to be built as tall as the local tree — in this case, the pine.
The chapel and one wing of the quadrangle have been completely restored and the church still has the original title floor. A small museum is housed is the quadrangle. Romie Rd. It served as the ecclesiastical capital of California and also as Father Serra's headquarters for administrative duties as presidente of the missions. Set against the sea and mountains miles south of San Francisco, this beautiful mission presents the complete quadrangle courtyard typical of mission architecture.
The architecture is Moorish in design and the facade holds a star-shaped window directly above the main entrance. The gardens include culinary and medicinal herbs, citrus and olive trees, roses, Mexican sage and bougainvillea. San Juan Bautista, 15th mission Founded by Father Lasuen in this mission was unwittingly located directly above the San Andreas fault.
Much of the original structure remains and has been restored to once again be the largest California mission church and the only one with three aisles.
It was named for John the Baptist. Musical arts were taught here and the mission owned many instruments, which the Indians readily took to. Father Tapis developed a colored musical notation system and taught the Indians to read music as well as play it.
Some of the parchments with colored notations still survive and the reredos behind the altar is so well-preserved that the paint is still brilliant. Second and Mariposa Sts. The dedication of Mission la Exaltacion de la Santa Cruz was made in by Father Lasuen at a site that was unfortunately located next to Branciforte pueblo, a community of ex-convicts and thieves.
Shaken by earthquakes and frustrated by the influence and behavior of the colonists, the padres abandoned the mission. The chapel was eventually rebuilt to service the town that had grown up around the mission plaza, and today a half-scale replica of the Santa Cruz Mission Church sits about seventy-five yards from the original site. Clare only three months before his death. In the work began which ultimately produced Santa Clara University as we know it today.
Located about 40 miles south of San Francisco, the main garden is devoted to tree roses, a mission tradition, and the string of willows planted along the miles between the mission and the pueblo of San Jose is today a well-traveled San Jose street known as The Alameda. Some initial mission walls exist and the bell tower holds the original bells sent from Spain. The University is rich in relics of the mission with a library of notable archival material.
At one time the mission lands reached north almost to Oakland and east to include the Sacramento Delta. A parish church now stands on the site with relics including a hammered baptismal font, altar bells and vestiments Mission Blvd. Dedicated to Saint Francis by Father Serra in , today the mission sits in the heart of San Francisco and is the oldest building in the city.
Much of the original church interior is intact and the guilded reredos and colorful wall paintings are good examples of early California art. It was established as a sanitarium and hospital for San Francisco neophytes suffering from depression and disease. The one padre in California who had medical training, Luis Gil y Taboado was so successful that other missions soon began sending their sick Indians.
Within five years it was raised to full mission status and dedicated to the patron of health in The small church with star windows was modeled after Carmel, however the structure was torn down in to be used for firewood.
Today a chapel at the site duplicates most of the original mission church. The church seen today is a parish church built in ; the original was mostly washed away by a tremendous thunderstorm.
A small portion of the original quadrangle exists, and the world-famous Sebastiani Vineyards include much of the original mission vineyard. The annual Vintage Festival is the oldest in the state, and each year the blessing of the grapes is performed by a Franciscan priest in front of the mission.
In , they purchased 4, acres and incorporated the City of Redlands and planted over 40, Orange Trees. Brown spent the next two years on horseback, searching throughout the San Bernardino Mountains for the ideal location for a reservoir.
He needed a reliable source of water to supply the thirsty citrus farms in Redlands On a cold crisp May morning in , with a light snow gently falling, Frank Brown rode through the area now called the Little Artic circle into Big Bear Valley Cold and tired, he led his horse through the lush meadows and pine forests until he reached the narrow gorge at the west end of the valley When he saw this gorge, Frank Brown had found the east end of the dry area that made up Lake Baldwin He decided that this would be the perfect spot for his new dam.
By July of , workers were cutting into the bedrock for the dam's foundation The construction of the rock dam was both unique and controversial. It was designed as a thin arch dam, 52 feet high, 20 wide at the bottom and tapering to only 3 feet wide at the top There was a very real concern whether or not such a narrow structure could sustain the enormous pressure of a five-mile long lake. It was made entirely out of three foot rock blocks cut from the surrounding hillside with little cement used to hold the blocks together The strength of the dam would come from the shape of the arch.
Without the use of explosives or power tools, the workers cut granite blocks from the hillside, each block weighing three to five tons. The dam was about fifteen feet high when the workers went home for the winter because of early snowstorms Normally the Big Bear area gets abut inches of snowfall per year This year over inches of snow fell When the men returned in the spring to resume work on the dam, they found the valley behind what they had finished full of water and water cascading over the top of the unfinished dam After an inspection of the dam it was the found that the design had worked There were no leaks And now the men, instead of having to haul the heavy rock by mule across the dry valley, they could now put them on rafts and float them over to the dam on the partially filled lake By the fall of , the dam was finished except for the cap across the top Early snow again forced the workers to end there work on the dam for season and the workers went home for the winter.
When they came back in the spring, after another heavy winter of snow, they found the dam holding solid with a new 5 mile long lake sitting in the valley where pine trees and green meadows had been the year before What Frank didn't realize was that he had also created a tourist attraction.
The discovery of gold in , in the mountains around the new lake brought the first significant numbers of people to Big Bear They found the valley covered in snow and set up camp in an area called Starvation Flats, located where the intersection of Stanfield and Big Bear Boulevard is today.
That winter was unusually cold and harsh Food was in short supply for the miners at Starvation Flats Jack Martin decided to return to Los Angeles for more supplies and Bill Holcomb realizing it would take up to three weeks for Martin to get back up the mountain in the dead of winter went hunting for food Holcomb headed north across the valley and climbed up the mountain just west of Bertha Peak where present day highway 18 heads out of the Big Bear Valley into Holcomb Valley From the top of the ridge he gazed upon a new lush green valley that would eventually bear his name He killed two bears, packed his kill on burros and returned to Starvation Flats thus providing enough meat for himself and the other minors in camp until Martin returned from LA.
With a fresh supply of meat at camp, Bill decided to return to the new valley for a couple of days and do a little prospecting
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