San Miguel Arcángel, San Miguel 16th mission 1797 Explore all of California’s 21 famed missions >> Step inside and look closely at these walls and ceilings.

Brother Bill, Guardian of Mission San Miguel in San Miguel, California. Founded on July 25, 1797, Mission San Miguel is one of twenty-one Franciscan missions in California.

San Miguel was the 16th in a series of 21 missions built in California between 1769 and 1823. The year San Miguel was founded was an important one in the far-off United States because John Adams ...

This white paper presents the results of an aerial survey of the historic San Miguel Mission site in California, conducted using the IF800 Tomcat drone equipped with a Sony ILX-LR1 camera and a 35 mm ...

During a recent visit, a professional photographer shot photos of a teenage girl in her quinceañera dress, posing among the picturesque mission’s cacti and signature arches. A father and his daughter ...

AGE AND EARTHQUAKES have damaged California’s historic Mission San Miguel, but it might take the politically clueless to destroy it. They’re the ones who’ve allowed this 18th century ...

Reporting from San Miguel — The earthly prospects for Mission San Miguel looked bleak. After an earthquake days before Christmas in 2003, the tottering 1818 church was declared unsafe to enter.

Mission San Miguel’s Father Juan Cabot well-versed in dealing with drought ... I’ve always been impressed by his understanding of the California environment. Cabot (1781-1856) ...

Mission San Miguel isn’t the first heavily damaged by an earthquake. Much of Mission San Fernando was destroyed in the Sylmar quake of 1971. Even so, Foss said, “I haven’t even entertained ...

The missions—built between 1769 and 1823 and extending in a chain of 600 miles from Sonoma to San Diego—stand as symbols of California's Spanish colonial past. Pictured is San Miguel's bell tower.

WHILE OPPOSING FACTIONS carve their positions in stone, the cracked adobe walls of Mission San Miguel Arcangel gingerly stand their ground. One more large earthquake could topple them and their ...