Mission San Buenaventura

Ventura County · Ventura · location approximate

This mission was the ninth and the last one to be dedicated by Father Junípero Serra, 1782. The first chapel and church were destroyed and the present mission church was begun in 1793 and completed in 1809.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document.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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