Mission San Francisco de Asis (Dolores)

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This paper describes the Mission San Francisco de Asis or Mission Dolores, located at nearly the geographic center of what is now San Francisco. The paper relates that the Mission is one of 21 of the original Spanish Missions constructed to foster Spanish control over the region and it is the oldest intact nave structure in California and the oldest building in San Francisco, having survived the 1906 earthquake. The paper also points out that this location is said to be the original site of a Native0American village of the Ohlone Nation called Chutchui. Additionally, the paper describes the rich fusion of Spanish, Mexican and American history surrounding this mission. Two photographs are included with the paper.

From the Paper:

"The cemetery has never been desecrated but has had regional periodical re-internment and moving of bodies for various city projects. The rich history of some of those interred is of course limited to the white, as this was what was of interest to the people in the 19th century, when many of the local interest stories about the cemetery became popular. Famous governors of California and renegades of the region are buried there in addition to the Native burials and the friars of the Franciscan order who toiled and died there."

Sample of Sources Used:

• California Missions Ask the Experts Website (2003-2007) http://www.missionscalifornia.com/qa/faq.php?answer=37&cat_name=Mission%20Information,%20Facts,%20Requests%20for%20History&category_id=10#37
• The California Mission Site. Ed. The Civic Group. 24 Sept. 1998. http://www.californiamissions.com/cahistory/dolores.html.
• California Mission Foundation Website "San Francisco de Asis" (2005) http://www.missionsofcalifornia.org/missions/mission06.html
• Chapman, Charles E. A History of California: The Spanish Period. New York: Macmillan, 1991. http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=90633009.
• Crosby, Harry W. Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

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