7/3/2015

7/3/2015

Landmark information

  • Location:
    Camp and Albion Sts, San Francisco
  • Plaque:
    Official State Plaque
  • Site:
    Nothing Remains
  • Date First Visited:
    3/2/1997
  • Date Most Recently Visited:
    7/3/2015
  • GPS Coordinates:
    N 38 45.843, W 122 25.359

About this landmark

Plaque text:

Site of Original Mission Dolores Chapel and Dolores Lagoon
On June 29, 1776, Father Francisco 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 documents arrived. The present Mission Doloreswas dedicated in 1791.