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3 unusual facts about Spanish missions in California


Francis Grierson

Shepard traveled through California in 1876 performing at several of the old religious missions founded by the Spanish.

Ignacio Jerusalem

Ignacio de Jerusalem was an 18th-century violinist and composer who led the development of California mission music.

Spanish Fork, Utah

Its name derives from a visit to the area by two Franciscan friars from Spain, Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez in 1776, who followed the stream down Spanish Fork canyon with the objective of opening a new trail from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Spanish missions in California, along a route later followed by fur trappers.


Mission Santa Inés

Mission Santa Inés (sometimes spelled Santa Ynez) is a Spanish mission in the present-day city of Solvang, California, and named after St. Agnes of Rome.

Tamyen people

During the era of Spanish missions in California, the Tamyen's lives changed with the Mission Santa Clara, and later the Mission San José of Fremont (founded in 1797) built in their region.


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