Morro Bay, CA
Photo to the right was taken next to an avocado farm along CA41 as I approached Morro Bay with its distinctive Morro Rock.
The Soledad Mission (Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad in Spanish) was dedicated on 9 October 1791 by Father Fermin Lasuen. [Incidentally, Father Lasuen also supervised the construction of the San Juan Bautista Mission, #13 of 21 and the Santa Cruz Mission, #12.]
Unfortunately, floods in 1824 and 1832 devastated the mission and it was abandonned. In the mid-1950s the Native Daughters of the Golden West spear-headed the reconstruction, which was completed on 9 October 1955.
The shot above was taken from the north-west and the one to the right as well as the one immediately below were taken from the west.
My guess is that the palm trees were introduced during the reconstruction -- but I'll have to review my previous photos of other missions to see how often they appear.
As you can see the lawn and garden on the west side of the mission is very well-maintained. [I thought about pilferring an orange, but the docent was talking with someone only a short distance away.]
The gnarled roots of the olive trees in center of this shot guarantee that they were plant when the original mission was constructed. (Though they are not in any of the photos I took, the grape vines along the north side of the mission are also old and gnarly.)
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Links:
- Wikipedia article of Soledad Mission
- List of California's 21 Spanish Missions
- Wikipedia article on Soledad
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