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■ FIRST THERE WAS THE MISSION. ( j J s I !i A short distance from the Valley of the Bears, Padre Serra, on September 1, 1772, blessed the Mission site, erected the Holy Cross, and sang the first Mass. With the aid of Indians in the area. Padre Cavalier and his assistants erected the first Mission chapel of logs. Padres at Mission San Luis Obispo worried about the threat of fire, for the log building had a tule roof. After several fires, set by hostile Indians shooting flaming arrows into the roof, destroyed all but the chapel and the grain shed, an adobe building was erected and tile was utilized for the roofing — the first tile-roofing to be used by any of the Missions. 2
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EL RODEO CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA 1S5S Gospor de Portola first stopped in the Valley of the Bears, now known as Los Osos Valley, on his way north to establish the Monterey Presidio in 1769. Three years later Padre Junipero Serra, determined to establish his fifth mission in the verdant and fertile valley, left Monterey with a pack train headed for San Diego. Padre Serra began Ihe trek southward from Monterey to San Luis Obispo accompanied by a Padre, who was to be in charge of the new Mission, two Indian assistants, and a few soldiers for the Mission guard.
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In the Mission Plozo, Chrisfion Indions built their huts and became the first citizens of what was to be the town of San Luis Obispo. The Padres gave the Indians instructions not only in Christian philosophy, but also in the vocational arts and crafts. It was not until 1837, however, when the vast acreages of lands under Mission control passed into the hands of the rancheros,” that the town began to grow. In February of 1850, San Luis Obispo was designated as the county seat of San Luis Obispo County one of the original 27 counties in California. The growing community of San Luis Obispo became a town, with a board of trustees as its governing body in February of 1856. Twenty years later, in 1876, San Luis Obispo was re-incorporated as the “'city of San Luis Obispo. V ... qr-i S' V'
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