Image: Mission Santa Barbara - Flickr - brewbooks (cropped)
Description: This dates from 1785. Spanish missions in California comprise a series of religious and military outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order between 1769 and 1823 to spread the Christian faith among the local Native Americans. The missions represented the first major effort by Europeans to colonize the Pacific Coast region, and gave Spain a valuable toehold in the frontier land. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_missions_in_California en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Santa_Barbara sb0811 041
Title: Mission Santa Barbara - Flickr - brewbooks (cropped)
Credit: Mission Santa Barbara
Author: brewbooks from near Seattle, USA
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