DIVISION ONE — PRE-PASADENIAN. 



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CHAPTER II. 



The San Gabriel MissiON.-Its successive padres.-Its trades and industries.-Claudio 

 Lopez, and other secular officers.-The story of the Mills.-Joseph Chapman the 

 Yankee prisoner, in the Mount Lowe "Grand Canyon "-i8i8.-Secularization of 

 the Mission.— Don Juan Bandini as administrator.— Earthquake in 1812 —Ship 

 built there in 1831; etc., etc. 



THE SAN GABRIEL MISSION. 



The old Mission church at San Gabriel has so much historic interest to 

 Pasadena people and our tourist visitors, and is so closely connected with 

 the old Rancho San Pasqual, that I must give a few points of its history here 

 in consecutive order : 



Photo for "Laud of Sunshine," Sept., IS'.H. 

 OLD STONE CHURCH, SAN GABRIEL, 



Which was in process of erection from 1790 to 1808. 



On September 8th, 1771, the San Gabriel Mission was first established, 

 by padres Angel Somera and Pedro Cambon, on the west bank of the river 

 which had been up to this time called Rio San Miguel, but from that date 

 was called Rio San Gabriel.* The site was what is still called "Old Mis- 

 sion", and an Indian village called in their language Ismithcog-na, stood 

 close by. 



In 1772 Somera and Cambon retired and Padres Paterna and Antonio 

 Cruzado took charge, the latter remaining until October 12, 1804. 



c ti- ^y°^^ Wilson in his " History of Los Angeles Co." published in i88o bj- Thompson & West, 

 says this river was first called "Rio de los Temblores", and many other writers have followed him. 

 uuiit IS an entire mistake, for that name was applied only to the Santa Ana river, unless by mistake. 



