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On July 4, 1823, Padre José
Altamira founded this northernmost of California's Franciscan
missions, the only one established in California under
independent Mexico. In 1834, secularization orders were
carried out by Military Commandant M. G. Vallejo, and
Mission San Francisco Solano became a parish church serving
the Pueblo and Sonoma Valley until it was sold in 1881.
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