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===** San Gabriel mission ** ===

Created by: Vasanth Prabakaran**.** **Mission location **
 * The mission is located at Mission Drive in San Gabriel, 9 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
 * The location was selected because it was close to fertile lands for crops, a river, good timber, and many Indian villages nearby.

**Founding of the mission **
 * The mission was founded by Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera.
 * The mission was founded on September 8, 1771.

**Building of the mission **
 * The mission was built of stone and concrete upto the windows and brick from there on top.
 * Initially it had three rooms, now it has fifteen.
 * The mission was built using stones, brick, lime mortar ( concrete) and wood. The roof was made up of flat tiles.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Architecturally, Mission San Gabriel differs from most of the others in the California chain. Mission San Gabriel has capped butteresses and long narrow windows similar to the forts in Spain.

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 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The friars, Indian men, women, children, the soldiers, and their families lived at the mission.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The women did sewing clothes, spinning yarn, cooking, and cleaning, the men did farming, raising cattle, and construction work.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After dinner, the neophytes could rest, play games, or visit each other on the mission.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holy days and festivals, such as the harvest festivals featured good food, Indian dances, games and concerts.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They had atole for breakfast and dinner; for lunch they had pozole, a meat stew with beans, corn, and vegetables, served with tortillas or atole.

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 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chumash and the Tongva tribes lived at the mission.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Indian men did farming and construction work, while the women did cooking, cleaning, sewing, spinning yarns, and making clothes.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They lived in huts made of willow branches bent into a dome. The branches were covered with tule or reeds to protect them from rain.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The europeans wanted the Indians to join the mission, to work in the mission and also become christians.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They were treated very badly, sometimes they were whipped and beaten up. They Indian women lived in locked-up places that were dirty and unhealthy.

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 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The mission is one of the monuments of California history.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, it is still standing.
 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was called the " Queen of the missions", because it produced bountiful harvests and large herds of cattle.

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 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mission San Gabriel Arcangel by Alice B McGinty
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The California Missions A pictorial history by the Sunset Authors
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Missions of the Los Angeles Area by Dianne MacMilllan

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 * <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">**What did the Indians think when they saw the banner of Virgin Mary?**
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