Title supplied by cataloger. Mission San Buenaventura was the ninth Spanish mission to be established by Franciscan priest Junipero Serra, who founded the mission on March 31, 1782. It was located near the Chumash village of Mitsquanaqa'n, and was designed in the traditional quadrangle, receiving water from the Ventura river via an aqueduct. The first church was destroyed by fire, and work continued on the rebuilding of it until its dedication in 1809. In 1812, earthquakes and a tsunami forced the temporary evacuation; in 1818, priests and their flock were forced to remove sacred objects and hide in the hills when Argentine pirates threatened raids on the coast and its missions; in 1836, the mission and its lands were secularized after the Mexican Revolution of Independence; in 1845, Mission San Buenaventura and its lands were rented to Don Jose Arnaz and Narciso Botello, then illegally sold to Arnaz; in 1862, the mission was returned to the Catholic Church by President Abraham Lincoln. Mission San Buenaventura is on the National Register of Historic Places, #NPS-75000496, and is a California Historical Landmark, #310. It continues to serve as a parish church to this day. View of San Buenaventura Mission, photographed from an elevated position looking west out towards the Pacific Ocean. The quadrangle courtyard showing old walls which were used as protection from Indians, no longer exists. San Buenaventura Mission is located at 211 E. Main Street, Ventura, CA 93001. Photograph circa 1877.
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image
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1 negative : safety ; 25 x 20 cm. Photographic safety negatives
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