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Image:CHS-46640.jpg|{{CHS-46640.jpg/credit}}<br/>The [[San Antonio de Pala Asistencia]] (or "Pala Mission" as it is known today) ''circa'' 1900. Pala is architecturally unique among all of the Franciscan missions in that it boasts the only completely freestanding campanile, or "bell tower," in all of Alta California. It is also the only outpost that has ministered without interruption to the Mission Indians for whom it was originally built since its inception, and is the only "sub-mission" still intact.<ref name="carillo11">Carillo, p. 11</ref>
Image:CHS-46640.jpg|{{CHS-46640.jpg/credit}}<br/>The [[San Antonio de Pala Asistencia]] (or "Pala Mission" as it is known today) ''circa'' 1900. Pala is architecturally unique among all of the Franciscan missions in that it boasts the only completely freestanding campanile, or "bell tower," in all of Alta California. It is also the only outpost that has ministered without interruption to the Mission Indians for whom it was originally built since its inception, and is the only "sub-mission" still intact.<ref name="carillo11">Carillo, p. 11</ref>
Image:CHS-2097.jpg|{{CHS-2097.jpg/credit}}<br/>[[Mission San Luis Rey de Francia]] is home to with the first Peruvian Pepper Tree (''Schinus molle'') planted in California in 1830, visible at right behind the arches in the above photograph (taken ''circa'' 1900).<ref>young, p. 18</ref>
Image:CHS-2097.jpg|{{CHS-2097.jpg/credit}}<br/>[[Mission San Luis Rey de Francia]] is home to with the first Peruvian Pepper Tree (''Schinus molle'') planted in California in 1830, visible at right behind the arches in the above photograph (taken ''circa'' 1900).<ref>young, p. 18</ref>
Image:CHS-1909.jpg|{{CHS-1909.jpg/credit}}<br />An engraved portrait of Fr. Junípero Serra, O.F.M. The well-known and beloved missionary died in Monterey, California, on August 28, 1784.
Image:USNS Mission Capistrano.jpg|{{USNS Mission Capistrano.jpg/credit}}Between 1944 and 1945, twenty-seven [[USNS Mission Buenaventura (T-AO-111)|''Mission Buenaventura'']]-class fleet oilers were built (two additional vessels were converted to distilling ships after their keels had been laid).<ref>Fleet Oiler (AO) Photo Index</ref> Many of the ships, such as the [[USNS Mission Capistrano (T-AO-112)|USNS ''Mission Capistrano'' (T-AO-112)]] shown above, served with the United States Navy during [[World War II]] and on into the [[Cold War]].
Image:USNS Mission Capistrano.jpg|{{USNS Mission Capistrano.jpg/credit}}Between 1944 and 1945, twenty-seven [[USNS Mission Buenaventura (T-AO-111)|''Mission Buenaventura'']]-class fleet oilers were built (two additional vessels were converted to distilling ships after their keels had been laid).<ref>Fleet Oiler (AO) Photo Index</ref> Many of the ships, such as the [[USNS Mission Capistrano (T-AO-112)|USNS ''Mission Capistrano'' (T-AO-112)]] shown above, served with the United States Navy during [[World War II]] and on into the [[Cold War]].
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A collection of images about Spanish missions in California.

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  1. Jones and Klar, 307
  2. Carillo, p. 11
  3. young, p. 18
  4. Fleet Oiler (AO) Photo Index