San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia
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- Other missions bearing the name San Pedro y San Pablo include Mission San Pedro y San Pablo de Bicuñer near Yuma, Arizona and Mission San Pedro y San Pablo del Tubutama in southern Arizona.
 The perimeter of the outpost's foundation is outlined with logs. |
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| Location | Pacifica, California |
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| Name as Founded | Asistencia de la Misión San Francisco de Asís |
| English Translation | Sub-Mission of the Mission San Francisco de Asís |
| Patron | Saint Peter and Saint Paul |
| Founding Date | 1786 |
| Military District | Fourth |
| Native Tribe(s) Spanish Name(s) |
Ohlone Costanoan |
| Native Place Name(s) | Pruristac |
| Governing Body | County of San Mateo |
| Current Use | Museum |
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| National Historic Landmark | #NPS–76000525 — Sánchez Adobe Park |
| Date added to the NRHP | 1976 |
| California Historical Landmark | #391 — Sánchez Adobe |
The San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia was established in 1786, as a "sub-mission" to Mission San Francisco de Asís in the San Pedro Valley at the Ohlone village of Pruristac. The site is located within the bounds of the Rancho San Pedro (home to the Sánchez Adobe) in what today is the town of Pacifica.
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[edit] Precontact
The current prevailing theory postulates that Paleo-Indians entered the Americas from Asia via a land bridge called "Beringia" that connected eastern Siberia with present-day Alaska (when sea levels were significantly lower, due to widespread glaciation) between about 15,000 to 35,000 years ago. The remains of Arlington Springs Man on Santa Rosa Island are among the traces of a very early habitation in California, dated to the last ice age (Wisconsin glaciation) about 13,000 years ago. The first humans are therefore thought to have made their homes among the southern valleys of California's coastal mountain ranges some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago; the earliest of these people are known only from archaeological evidence.[1] The cultural impacts resulting from climactic changes and other natural events during this broad expanse of time were negligible; conversely, European contact was a momentous event, which profoundly affected California's native peoples.[2]
[edit] History
Within the first year a chapel, granary, tack room, and three other rooms had been constructed, all using native labor. In 1788 two more rooms were added. In 1789 a second granary was built, quarters for the mayordomo, and quarters for the missionaries were built. Also, a covered passageway which temporarily served as a kitchen. Crops of wheat and beans were planted in quantities to provide for the needs of the parent mission. At its peak the asistencia consisted of a three-wing main structure surrounding a central plaza. Corn, peas, barley, asparagus, and rosemary would, in time also be cultivated, along with grape vineyards and groves of peach and quince trees. Due to a significant decline in the native population, the facility was used mainly as an outpost to graze cattle after 1790.
After secularization of the missions in 1834 the Mexican Governor of California granted the lands of the Rancho (8,928 acres in all) to Don Francisco Sanchez in 1839. Included were the all of the buildings of the Asistencia. Sanchez retained ownership of the property after California was ceded to the United States in 1848. In 1894, roof tiles were salvaged from the property and installed on the Southern Pacific Railroad depot located in Burlingame, California (the first permanent structure constructed in the Mission Revival Style). Today, little remains of the original installation.
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[edit] References
- Jones, Terry L. and Kathryn A. Klar (eds.) (2007). California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity. Altimira Press, Landham, MD. ISBN 0-759-10872-2.
- Paddison, Joshua (ed.) (1999). A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush. Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA. ISBN 1-890771-13-9.
- San Mateo Environmental Services Agency. Sánchez Adobe Historical Site: Draft Master Plan. Retrieved on July 26, 2006.
- Spanish Colonization in San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties. Retrieved on July 25, 2006.
[edit] See also
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San Diego de Alcalá (1769) · San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (1770) · San Antonio de Padua (1771) · San Gabriel Arcángel (1771) · San Luis Obispo de Tolosa (1772) · San Francisco de Asís (1776) · San Juan Capistrano (1776) · Santa Clara de Asís (1777) · San Buenaventura (1782) · Santa Barbara (1786) · La Purísima Concepción (1787) · Santa Cruz (1791) · Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (1791) · San José (1797) · San Juan Bautista (1797) · San Miguel Arcángel (1797) · San Fernando Rey de España (1797) · San Luis Rey de Francia (1798) · Santa Inés (1804) · San Rafael Arcángel (1817) · San Francisco Solano (1823) Asistencias Estancias |
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