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PART 3: The Mission VISITAS : ALL DONE !

David K - 4-10-2009 at 07:07 PM

Worked all day on this one... and many Nomads helped with their photos!!!

Thank you Jack Swords, Kevin in Oklahoma, academicanachist, Baja Amy, ELINVESTI8, BajaCat.

Thanks also to the authors of great Baja books: Arthur North, Marquis McDonald, Mike McMahan, Howard Gulick, Michael Mathes, Edward Vernon, Dave Werschkul...

Enjoy a look at what I have done so far... http://www.vivabaja.com/missions3/





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Jack Swords - 4-10-2009 at 08:58 PM

So far?? Beautiful job David. Very nice to have it all together. What more do you have in mind?

David K - 4-10-2009 at 09:36 PM

Well Jack, as you know... there is just SO MUCH BAJA (HISTORY) and so little time (to explore it all)!!!

Are there any more old photos of visita sites? I have one of San Telmo along with a recent one from Kevin... there just isn't much to see in either (almost like Santa Catalina mission)! The photo web pages are a bit more interesting if there is at least a pile of stones or lump of adobe to show. I have not found any photos for the Guadalupe (del Sur) visita of San Miguel that sounded so important... etc. There are plenty more... You know there are! :biggrin:

Take a fresh look at the mission data pages too, and see if my research and observations all make sense. Thanks Jack... and thanks to the other Nomads who enjoy the look at Old California History... and knowing San Diego was NOT even close to being the 'First Mission of California' as our California history books taught us! :rolleyes:

Part 1 (The Jesuit Missions 1697-1767):
http://www.vivabaja.com/missions1/

Part 2 (The Franciscan and Dominican missions 1769-1849):
http://www.vivabaja.com/missions2/

Part 3 (Mission Visitas):
http://www.vivabaja.com/missions3/



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David K - 4-11-2009 at 07:33 AM

Thanks Amy,

I have added all that I can find photos of that show something. San Telmo is the only visita left that I have photos for, not yet on the page. I took a photo at San Ignacito adobe ruin (west of San Borja), but it may be a newer ranch home and not the mission ruin of 'San Ignacio'.

Seeing old and new photos to compare is good and only for San Isidoro I don't have any old photos.

Other mission-era sites

David K - 4-11-2009 at 07:36 AM

Here is the mission warehouse ruin on the shore of Bahia San Luis Gonzaga where supplies were offloaded for the missions of Santa Maria de los Angeles (1767) and San Fernando Velicata (1769).


Finding EL CAMINO REAL (from space)

David K - 4-11-2009 at 07:56 AM

A couple months ago, I posted satellite images of the mission road from Santa Maria to Loreto... and included Baja Almanac topo maps with arrows pointing to where the images were showing the Camino Real.

Santa Maria to San Borja

San Borja to Santa Gertrudis (Sierra route)

San Borja to Santa Gertrudis (Golfo route)

Santa Gertrudis to San Ignacio (Pacifico route)

Santa Gertrudis to San Ignacio (Sierra route)

San Ignacio to Guadalupe

Guadalupe to San Jose de Comondu

San Jose de Comondu to Loreto





Maps spliced together by Sharksbaja!

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David K - 4-12-2009 at 09:35 PM

Okay, I think Part 3 is now done... with a photo by Jack Swords now on the opening page: http://www.vivabaja.com/missions3/

I also added links to Part 1 & Part 2 that help make it easy to navigate between the three part series and the new location for the El Camino Real image and map links (on Part 2, last page).

Now you can go to Part 1 and have a fresh look through all the pages of the three parts (make sure you refresh each page as you go there IF you took a look at it before... to make sure your PC shows to the updated page! PART 1: http://www.vivabaja.com/missions1/

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David K - 6-1-2009 at 10:12 AM

Final (?) edit... I added the GPS waypoints to each visita page, as I had done with each mission page!

David K - 8-12-2009 at 11:04 AM

Okay... I updated all the links in this thread to the new VivaBaja.com mission pages as well as added new Magdalena info and photo to the visitas page, from our trip last month!

ex mission guadalupe

lancesmith - 9-7-2009 at 02:17 PM

We have been to the ex mission guadalupe many times, there are no original buildings left however there are miles of stone fences left from the indians labors. there is a small catholic church with outdoor bell near a grove of orange trees adjacent to the old mission location. to the north is a ranch which has an old rock dam the owner says was built by the spainards. the area is fascinating and is an easy place to reach via San Jose de Magdnalena.

David K - 9-8-2009 at 07:33 AM

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Originally posted by lancesmith
We have been to the ex mission guadalupe many times, there are no original buildings left however there are miles of stone fences left from the indians labors. there is a small catholic church with outdoor bell near a grove of orange trees adjacent to the old mission location. to the north is a ranch which has an old rock dam the owner says was built by the spainards. the area is fascinating and is an easy place to reach via San Jose de Magdnalena.


Thanks for that, and welcome to Nomad!

I don't have much on Mision Guadalupe (west of Mulege), but it has an interesting history that deserves reading about!

Guadalupe de Huasinapi (1720-1795): http://vivabaja.com/missions1/page5.html