Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 50 Mission Wells
Posted: September 4th, 2008
Havana and Bleeker Streets, Sylmar.
The presence of cienegas or swamplands was one of the vital factors in the decision of the Franciscan Padres to erect the Mission San Fernando Rey de España in 1797 at a site two to three miles west of these cienegas.
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