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**__San Luis Obispo De Tolosa__ **





Created by:Tanya Ravichandran

San Luis Obispo De Tolosa is located in an old town, it is in an area that used to be called, by the Spanish, the Valley of the Bears. The Spanish thought that the Valley of the Bears was suitable area to have Mission San Luis Obispo because it was rich with food and water, had good climate, and the Chumash Indians were very helpful and friendly.
 * Mission location: **

**Founding of the mission: **
Gaspar De Portola was the navigator to find a good spot for this mission, and Frey Serra founded this mission on September 1, 1772.

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The Spanish gathered mud and spread it around wood that was shaped like a pit, then they made about 1000 of them and aligned them to look like a building. To make the foundation they made adobe bricks and placed them how they wanted it to look like, while doing that they put plaster on top of the adobe bricks. For the roof of the mission they made baked clay tiles and made a roof shape. Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa had a total of eight rooms inside. For construction the Chumash and the Spanish used mud, wood, oak, and adobe bricks. San Luis Obispo De Tolosa has three bells, one main church, and 6000 graves in the cemetery and more. Also, San Luis Obispo was famous for the gardens, beautiful frescos, and religious statues.=====

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Frey Serra, Gaspar De Portola, the soldiers, and the Chumash that helped build San Luis Obispo De Tolosa lived at this mission or nearby villages. At the mission there were two jobs for a bell ringer, but those two jobs were hard because the Chumash had to memorize bell patterns. At the mission they also had jobs, like farming crops for food, and cooking, ranching, leather-making, iron-working, tanning, carpentry, construction, making baskets, making soap, and weaving. At the mission, when they had parties and spare time the Spanish and the Chumash Indian tribe usually played games like spear the hoop or archery, they sang and danced for entertainment, but usually the Spanish forced the Chumash to work almost all the time. During the stay for the Chumash and Spanish they often ate pozole which is like a stew made up of grains, atole, vegetables, and meat. More things they ate were meat, corn, wheat, fruits, beans, and nuts. The Spanish were the only ones that were allowed to drink/eat, wine that came from the grapes, and oil from olives, but sadly the Chumash had to grow the grapes and olives.=====

The Chumash Indian, unmarried women lived at the mission doing all the cooking while the other Chumash Indians lived in the Chumash Indian village.
The schedule was to wake at sunrise when the first bell rings, then to head to the church for thirty minutes for morning prayers, then head from church to breakfast, from there they went and did jobs. Then when the afternoon bells rang they ended there work and ate lunch, after lunch they took a nap till the next bell rings. When the next bell rang it told them to go eat dinner, pray for a little bit. Finally, when the last bell rings it told them that they could have free time till it was time to sleep.There houses would be separate and have a tule roof and adobe bricks for the side of there houses. The Spanish wanted the indians to live at San Luis Obispo De Tolosa because the Spanish wanted the Chumash to do there daily chores for them.The Spanish gave the Chumash orders and to do there jobs even the Chumash were friendly to the Spanish.

Now that people visit this mission, San Luis Obispo De Tolosa is now being used for, a community center, a church, and a museum. The mission is still standing now, but in the 1700 there was an earthquake that knocked out most of the mission. Since San Luis Obispo is a huge name, the nickname is "Mission In The Valley Of The Bears", and it is called that because, in that area there were tons of bears.

**Bibliography: **

 * __Mission Of The Inland Valleys__, by Pualine Browner, the publisher is The Lerner Company, it was published in the year of 1996 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 * __Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa__, by Mary Null Boule, the publisher is Merryant Publisher, it was published in the year of 1998 in Vashon, Washington.
 * __Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa__, by Kathleen J. Edgar, the publisher is The Rosen Publishing Group, it was published in the year of 2000 in New York.
 * http://www.bgmm.com/sanluiso.htm is the website that helped me with the question, how was the mission built.
 * http://www.missiontour.org/related/nicknames.html is the website that helped me answer the question, what was the nickname of your mission.
 * http://www.essortment.com/all/spanishcaliforn_rotx.htm is the website that helped me answer part of, what jobs where at your mission.
 * My social studies book.

**Questions: **


 * Which number in the twenty one mission was San Luis Obispo De Tolosa Built?
 * What was San Luis Obispo De Tolosa named from?
 * What letter of the alphabet is the church like?
 * Did San Luis Obispo De Tolosa ever get sold? If it did get sold, what year was it sold?
 * What kind of animal tracks would you find at Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa?
 * What mission is north of San Luis Obispo De Tolosa?
 * What mission is south of San Luis Obispo De Tolosa?
 * Why did the Spanish come to California to build San Luis Obispo De Tolosa?
 * What used to be standing at the spot of San Luis Obispo De Tolosa?
 * What coast is San Luis Obispo De Tolosa, in California?
 * After the Spaniards left Mission San Luis Obispo De Tolosa, to discover other missions who lived at San Luis Obispo De Tolosa?
 * When was the last time people lived at San Luis Obispo?
 * How many people visit this mission every year?
 * Who restored this mission when the earthquake in the 1700 knocked down most of this mission?
 * How many people worked to build this mission?
 * Is there a school in Mission San Luis Obispo?
 * Did other Indian tribes live at this mission then the Chumash?How many Native Americans lived at San Luis Obispo De Tolosa?
 * How many Native Americans lived at San Luis Obispo De Tolosa?
 * How many Spaniards lived at San Luis Obispo De Tolosa?
 * How did the beds look like at the mission?
 * What is atole?
 * Did the Spanish help build this mission?