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Wikipedia: The Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. Site of the first hospital in Alta California, the settlement was founded by Spaniards of the Franciscan order on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary" September 8, 1771 as the fourth of what would become 21 Spanish missions in California. San Gabriel Arcángel, often referred to as the "Godmother of the Pueblo of Los Angeles", was designed by Father Antonio Cruzado who hailed from Córdoba, Spain.
![[A streetcar of the Pacific Electric Railway makes a stop at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel circa 1905]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Old_PE_car_at_San_Gabriel_Mission_circa_1905_s.jpg "A streetcar of the Pacific Electric Railway makes a stop at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel circa 1905")
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![[Mission San Gabriel Arcángel circa 1900]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/San_Gabriel_Arcangel_circa_1900_Keystone-Mast_Company.jpg "Mission San Gabriel Arcángel circa 1900")
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![[Artist Rexford Newcomb's rendition of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel's original campanile, or "bell tower]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mission_San_Gabriel_conceptual_elevation_Rexford_Newcomb_1916_s.jpg "Artist Rexford Newcomb's rendition of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel's original campanile, or \"bell tower")
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