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The Last Mission, Sonoma
The California Mission Trail was comprised of twenty-one Spanish missions started in the late 1700s and spanning from San Diego up into Northern California. The missions represented the first major effort by Europeans to colonize the Pacific Coast. The missions were spaced one day's walk apart and served as the only civilized outposts along El Camino Real, providing shelter to all travelers. The last mission built and the farthest north was this one, the Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma, completed in 1823. The mission and adjacent Mexican Army barracks are located on Sonoma's city square in the heart of the wine country 45 miles from San Francisco.
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