On July 1, 1769, Father Junípero Serra and Don Gaspar de Portolá arrived on the shores of the beautiful land-locked harbor which had been named San Diego by Vizcaíño. Of the 219 men who had left Baja California two months …
On July 1, 1769, a pitiful group of Missionaries and Spanish soldiers gathered on the shore of San Diego Bay. Amongst the 219 Spaniards who had left Lower California two months before only half were still alive. Most of the …
Mission San Diego de Alcalá was founded on July 16, 1769, by Father Junípero Serra. Father Serra named the Mission for Didacus of Alcalá. San Diego de Alcalá is the first in the chain of twenty-one Spanish missions established along …