Site of Original Mission Dolores Chapel and Dolores Lagoon

California State Historic Landmark 327-1

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03/02/97
#327-1 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.

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Camp and Albion Sts, San Francisco.

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