7/3/2015
7/3/2015
Landmark information
- Location:
Camp and Albion Sts, San Francisco - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Nothing Remains - Date First Visited:
3/2/1997 - Date Most Recently Visited:
7/3/2015 - GPS Coordinates:
N 38 45.843, W 122 25.359
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Site of Original Mission Dolores Chapel and Dolores Lagoon
On June 29, 1776, Father Francisco Palou, a member of the Anza expedition, had 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 first mission was a log and thatch structure dedicated on October 9, 1776 when the necessary documents arrived. The present Mission Doloreswas dedicated in 1791.