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On June 29, 1776, Father
Fancisco 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
church documents arrived. The present Mission Dolores
was dedicated in 1791.
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