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General Information. Founded: July 4, 1823 - The 21st California Mission. Also Called: Sonoma Mission. Current Status: What remained of the mission was sold to a private party in 1881. Between 1911-1913, the mission was rebuilt with the support of the Historic Landmark League which acquired the property in 1903.
Mission San Francisco Solano was the 21st, last, and northernmost mission in Alta California. It was named for Saint Francis Solanus . It was the only mission built in Alta California after Mexico gained independence from Spain .
- July 4, 1823
- Father José Altimíra
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Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma, California - 1823 Was founded 1823 and is the last of the 21 Franciscan Missions. Note the changes in the bell tower, entrance door and side doors in this earlier postcard image.
Mission San Francisco de Solano marks the end of the mission trail. This twenty-first and last mission was founded on July 4, 1823 in what is today the city of Sonoma. When the Franciscan Fathers erected this northern most mission, it culminated three hundred years of Spanish-Mexican settlement in California, which dated back to 1523.
There is also a life-size figure of Father Junipero Serra, mission paintings by artists Robert Morris and Henry Nelson, and two stained-glass panels originally housed in Mission San Francisco de Asîs (prior to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake). Bell at Mission Sonoma, dated 1829.
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Mission San Francisco Solano’s bell was a gift from a surprising source -- the Russians at Fort Ross. Most of the mission bells were made in Mexico or Peru. Lima (in Peru) was known as “the city of bells” because there were so many bell foundries there.
Mission Facts. Mission San Francisco Solano was the 21st mission in Alta California, and the only one built under the Mexican era. It was the northernmost and last of the missions to be established. San Francisco Solano, the patron saint of the mission, was a 17th Century missionary to the Peruvians.