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California Missions
Fourth-graders in California schools are
assigned projects which teach the origin and development of the missions founded
in the state between 1769 and 1828.
The links below discuss each mission and provide insights into their history.
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California
Mission Site |
Featuring two
histories for each of the twenty-one California Missions, with beautiful
color photographs, fascinating green and white sketches, and, for the
first time ever, authentic mission music. This music was written in the
missions during the late 1700’s by the Spanish padres and the Native
Americans who lived and worked there.
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California
Missions |
Much of California’s
history began with the Spanish Missions. The chain of 21 missions along
California’s El Camino Real (“The Royal Highway”) represent the first
arrival of non-Native Americans to California. Life for the California
Native Americans was forever changed. In addition to Christianity, the
missions brought many other things to California such as livestock,
fruits, flowers, grains and industry. This was also the start of the
civilization in which we live today. However, as a result of the arrival
of the Spanish, many Native American lives were lost. [Although the
information on this site appears fairly accurate, there is no indication
of who is responsible for it.]
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California
Missions Information |
Includes a list of
the missions with links to descriptions of each; year founded; founder;
and modern city in which each mission is located.
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California Missions-
History and Facts
by Students at Joe Nightingale School, Orcott, CA
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Created by fourth
grade students at a California school, this page provides a very brief
overview of the mission system and a short look at missions near the
students’ home town. |
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CMSA: California
Mission Studies Association |
For the study and
preservation of the California missions, presidios, pueblos, and ranchos
and their Native American, Hispanic, and early American past.
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Junipero Serra and California Mission |
“Junipero Serra is an
extremely important figure in the development of present-day California.
His missions not only served as the centerpiece to the development of
Catholicism in California, but also as a key foundation to the growth of
the major California cities such as San Francisco, San Jose, and San
Diego. His legacy still remains along the former El Camino Real (present
day Hwy 101&5) in the form of twenty-one missions, nine of which he
personally founded and developed. Each has its own individual identity,
history, and unique traditions.” Includes a biography of Serra, addresses
and telephone numbers of the missions, and links to those missions which
have webpages.
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Spanish Missions
of California |
This site is the work
of Tobin Fricke and Lauren Bradford, who created it during the summer of
1996, largely between the hours of 9pm and 2am. Lauren and Tobin were both
Juniors at the time, Lauren at Santa Monica High School, and Tobin at
Mission Viejo High School in Southern California.
“Why did we do it? We created this site both to compete for a ThinkQuest
Scholarship (we didn’t win) and to show that the Internet is a viable
learning tool in the classroom. We hope that our site will excite all
those fourth and fifth graders out there in California who study the
Missions as part of the California State Curriculum, and we hope that
teachers will find it useful as well. Of course, this site is for anyone
and everyone, not just California’s fourth graders.” |
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