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Purisima Concepcion Mission’s Long Rise and Fall
Detailed history of Purisima Concepcion from its 1787 founding through earthquakes revolts and secularization. Notes on construction, baptisms and cattle, 1812 quake, relocation in 1818, 1834 confiscation, later decay, transfer to Temples and restoration efforts, with routes to visit and a peek at its revival near Lompoc.
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Fermin de Lasuen
la Purisima
Felipe de Neva
Purisima Concepcion
Beautiful Name
California
Spain
Mexico
Neve
Mission Santa Barbara
Pedro Fages
Lasuen
Rio de Santa Rosa
Santa Ynez
Gregorio Fernandez
Antonion Calzadas
Presidente Lasuen
Luis Rey
Zephyrin
Mariano Payeras
Good Fathers
Armiitage
Purisima
Rio Santa Rosa
San Bernardino
Lopez
Alsacupi
Los Berros
Santa Ines
San Luis Obispo
Payeras
Pipoll
College of San Fernando de Mexico
California Missions
Santa Barbara
Jose M. Echeandia
Domingo Carrillo
Carillo
William
Hartnell
Jose Antonio de la Guerra
Manuel Micheltorena
Pio Pico
Pico
John Temple
Engelon
Jusipeto Serra
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Helen Hunt Jackson
United States Indian
la Purisima Concepcion Mission
Lompoc
J. B. McNally
Mission Santa Inez
John Reynolds
Charles N. Raley
Mission Purisima
Raley
la Purisima Concepcion
Thomas J. Conaty
Los Angeles
Monterey
San Marcos Pass
Buellton
Santa Ings Mission
Cruces
San Francisco
Santa Maria
Orcutt
Bakersfield
Taft
Maricopa
Mission
Southern Pacific
San Luis Obispo de Tolosa