Location of Mission Vieja in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
El Camino Real bellMission San Gabriel Arcángel c. 1900, built after Misión Vieja flood of 1776. The trail in the foreground is part of the original El Camino Real.
The Mission Vieja or Misión Vieja or the Old Mission was the first Spanish mission in the San Gabriel Valley. Mission Vieja was built in 1771 by what would become the fathers of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. The Mission Vieja site was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.161) on Jan. 11, 1935. The location of Mission Vieja is at what is now the South West corner North San Gabriel Blvd and North Lincoln Ave in Montebello, California. The site has a plaque marker and an El Camino Real Bell. Mission Vieja was the first building in the San Gabriel Valley and Los Angeles County.
Father Juan Crespí picked the spot for Mission Vieja because water was available at what is now called the Whittier Narrows. The place for Mission Vieja was found in the expedition of Portolá in the summer of 1769. Gaspar de Portolá, Miguel Costansó and Father Juan Crespí recorded the expedition.[1] In 1771 the fathers of Pedro Cambon and the fathers of Angel Somera, with a decree from Governor Pedro Fages, set out to build a mission in the Spanish Empire of Alta California, in what is now called the Los Angeles Basin. The first building was 45 by 18 feet made of adobe and wood. The roof was made with tule reeds from the waters of the Whittier Narrows. The building had around it a weak Palisade fence.[2][3][4][5][6]
Father Angel Somera and Father Pedro Cambon, both Franciscan missionaries, founded Mission Vieja, the original Mission San Gabriel Arcangel, on September 8, 1771; the location is today near the intersection of San Gabriel Boulevard and the Rio Hondo River. The establishment of the mission marked the beginning of the Los Angeles region's settlement by Spaniards and the fourth of twenty-one[7] missions ultimately established along California's El Camino Real. The mission did well initially as a farm and cattle ranch. Six years after its founding, however, a destructive flood in 1776 led the mission fathers to relocate the mission five miles north, to its current location in what is the present day City of San Gabriel.[8]
During the early years of the mission's existence, the region operated under a "Rancho" land grant system.[9] The current city of Montebello consists of land from Rancho San Antonio, Rancho La Merced, and Rancho Paso de Bartolo. The Juan Matias Sanchez Adobe, built in 1844, still stands at the center of old Rancho la Merced in East Montebello. Recently restored, Rancho la Merced is the Montebello's oldest standing structure.[10]
^A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769-177o, by Juan Crespí and edited and translated by Alan K. Brown, published by San Diego State University Press, 2001.
^The Founding of Mission San Gabriel
^The first written record of the Misión Vieja area
^The Kizh/Gabrieleño People and Misión Vieja
^Misión Vieja: The Ancestral Center of the Los Angeles Region
^Home Stead Museum, Remnant Landscapes at Mision Vieja (Old Mission), South El Monte and Montebello
^"History". City of Montebello. October 19, 1920. Retrieved August 3, 2010.
^"Los Angeles". California Historical Landmarks. California Department of Parks & Recreation Office of Historic Preservation. 2004. Retrieved July 30, 2007.
^"Ranchos of California". Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
^"History". City of Montebello. 1920-10-19. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
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