The Mission System, California History

For a playlist of the entire History of California series: After Alta California had been peacefully conquered in 1769, franciscan missionaries came to convert the indigenous population. They set up mission buildings all along the California foot path that came to be known as El Camino Real, or the kings road. The first ones were in San Diego and Monterey, and they kept adding new ones year after year, eventually creating 21 with the last one finished 1823. references: Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. 39 Vols. San Francisco, Calif. : The History Company, 1890. Deverell, William. Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Hackel, Steven.