Mission San Miguel Arcángel

Mission San Miguel Arcángel is a California Historical Landmark in San Luis Obispo County.

San Miguel · location approximate

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This site was selected because of the great number of Salinan Indians living hereabout. Fray Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, O.F.M., second president of the California missions, founded San Miguel Arcángel on July 25, 1797. The 16th in a chain of 21 Franciscan missions, its influence has played not only upon the native population, but upon the history of California as a whole.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document.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 ↗

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Historical maps covering this location

1798 · The Coast of N.W. America. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1855 · Map of the Public Surveys in California, 1855 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1859 · Map of the Public Surveys in California, 1859 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Map of public surveys in California and Nevada, 1864 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1919 · Paso Robles, California (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Map of the Public Surveys in California, 1855, 1855, covering the location of Mission San Miguel Arcángel, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map of the Public Surveys in California, 1855, 1855, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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

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