Mission San Gabriel Arcángel

Los Angeles County · Junipero Street and West Mission Drive, San Gabriel · location approximate

The mission was founded September 8, 1771, by Padres Pedro Benito Cambón and Angel Fernández de la Somera. The present church building was begun during the latter part of the 18th century and completed in the year 1800.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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