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Navigation for Nuestra Seņora de la Soledad:
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[Note: At this Mission flash photography is expressly
forbidden in all areas. Therefore, many pictures
in the museum are heavily edited from dim digital images.]
| The museum, while small, contains a variety of interesting
items unearthed at the Mission. Items like the dueling pistols (left image),
for example, are not seen at other missions. They were found in a well
directly behind the chapel. The other exhibits shown here include keys,
nails, spikes, a latch and various small tools. |
Picture taken 2:00pm 1 Sep 2003 |
Picture taken 2:00pm 1 Sep 2003 |
Picture taken 2:00pm 1 Sep 2003 |
Picture taken 2:00pm 1 Sep 2003 |
Various samples of vestments and religious articles are also
on display. |
Various pictures and a bust of members of the Soberanes family, an important
family in the mid-1800s Salinas Valley, are in the Mission museum.
Don Feliciano de Soberanes
Picture taken 2:00pm 1 Sep 2003 |
Mariana Soberanes
Picture taken 2:00pm 1 Sep 2003 |
The Soberanes family is famous in the Monterey area for their musical talents
and hospitality to visitors passing through. In 1841 Governor Juan
Batista Alvarado granted 8,994 acres to Maria Josefa Soberanes, a daughter
of the Monterey family. Her father, Feliciano, and others obtained further
grants later. These all became known as Rancho Los Coches which had its headquarters
at the Richardson Adobe located at what is now the intersection of U.S. 101
and Arroyo Seco; the road you turn onto to get to Mission Soledad. [Note: Their
father, Jose Maria Soberanes, was a young member of the 1769 Portola expedition.]
[Reference: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~hummingbird/California/soberanes.htm]
| Also on display at the Mission museum are some letters relating to the
area signed by Governor Pio Pico. |
Picture taken 2:00pm 1 Sep 2003 |
Continue to the Ruins behind the main building...
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