Early California missions and Serra amid harsh frontier life
In the years before 1776 Spain built missions in Alta California as explorers and friars battled disease hunger and hostile terrain. Serra founded nine missions and endured a brutal trek from Loreto to San Diego while chronicling a paradox of beauty and hardship that shaped California before the American Revolution.
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Washington
Jefferson
Franklin
New England
California
Alta California
Mexico
Junipero Serra
San Diego
Majorca
Serra
Loreto
San
Monterey
West Coast
Was Drake the First To Discover San Francisco Bay
An overview of San Francisco Bay discovery notes the long dispute over who first sighted or landed there. It traces earlier Indigenous habitation, 1542 Cabrillo, 1579 Drake or crew, and the 1769 Portola expedition that charted inland routes toward Monterey and Point Reyes, culminating in Mission San Jose and the Basins of Alameda.
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San Francisco Bay
Alaska
Bering Sea
Juan Cabrillo
Sir Francis Drake
Fletcher
Barborough
Drake's Bay
Drake
Nova Albion
Sebastian Cermeno
Cermeno
Iim Harbor
la Bahia de San Francisco
St. Francis of Assisi
Sebastian Vizcaino
California
Monterey Bay
Gaspar de Portola
Vizcaino
Monterey
Farallon Islands
Point Reyes
la Bahia de
San Francisco
Portola
Jose Francisco de Ortega
Reyes and
Ortega
Niles
Alameda County
Pedro Fages
Fortola
Pages
BanJose
Fages
Juan Crespi
Hayward
San Lorenzo Creek
Crespi
San Salvador de Horta
Fruitvale
Mills College
Berskeley Hills
Berkeley
Albany
Richmond
Antioch
Home
Livermore-Amador
San Ramon Valley Boulevard
Castlewood Country Club
Sunol
Mission San Jose
New World
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Spain
Crown
Teabellus
Jesus Christ On Earth
Pope al
Isabella
Copie
Fernando Rivera Y Monends
Don Vicente Vila
Vila
San Carlos
Mezzetti
Fremont
America
Southern Alameda CO
Yeaa
Volkswagen
Peugeot PC
S.F. Bay Discovery
Marin Peninsula
Doublless Alameda Creek
Michael Tribey
Florence Randall
Marlene Richey
Beth Jacobs
Gracella DeVilbiss
Takako Endo
Esther McStay
Arliss Harmon
Janet Settle
English Channel
Ips
Transmountain
Val
Hayward Area
Lou Snutininsy
Willow Avenue
Monkland
Maple Towne
Dave
Tru-Sav
Winton
Jackson Ee
OT Cao
Highway Patrol
FBI
Customs
Treasury
Border Patrols
Mike Wright
Mike Carter
Cindy Erwin
Dan Pouliot
Soto & Jackson
Dmv
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