Mission Dolores

1:500 scale miniature paper model, about 3.5 inches long when built

The Spanish established the Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores) to the native Californian Ohlone people here in 1776, with the chapel dedicated in 1791. The small settlement that grew up around the mission exploded into a major city in just a few years after the 1849 Gold Rush.

Read more:

• Mission Dolores Basilica mass schedule and open hours at the Old Mission
• The dedication of the mission and founding of San Francisco
• The bell in front of the mission marks the early El Camino Real auto route following the old Spanish trail connecting the missions of California
• Mission Dolores was located next to a spring-fed creek and possibly a lake which have long been covered over by urban development
• Tribal history of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe at Mission San Francisco de Asis

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