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CHL No. 327.1 Mission Dolores Lagoon Site - San Francisco

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NO. 327-1 SITE OF ORIGINAL MISSION DOLORES CHAPEL AND DOLORES LAGOON - On June 29, 1776, Father Fancisco Palou, a member of the Anza Expedition, had a brushwood shelter built here on the edge of a now vanished lake, Lago de los Dolores (Lake of the Sorrows), and offered the first mass. The first mission was a log and thatch structure dedicated on October 9, 1776 when the necessary church documents arrived. The present Mission Dolores was dedicated in 1791.

Location

Camp and Albion Streets
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NO. 327.1 SITE OF ORIGINAL MISSION DOLORES CHAPEL AND DOLORES LAGOON