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Site of Original Mission Dolores Chapel and Dolores Lagoon
On June 29, 1776, Father Francisco Palou, a member of the Anza Expedition,
has a brushwood shelter built here on the edge of a now vanished lake,
Lago de los Dolores (Lake of the Sorrows) and offered the first mass.
The mission was a log and thatch structure dedicated on October 9, 1776
when the necessary church documents arrived. The present Mission Dolores was
dedicated in 1791.
California Registered Historical Landmark No. 327-1
Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in
cooperation with the Albion Neighborhood Association, June 29, 1995.
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