The California Riverside Mission area includes metropolitan cities expanding into citrus groves, rural landscapes with farms and ranches, high mountainous areas which receive snow in the winters and extensive desert areas with emerald-green oasis and retirement villages.
The first Saints in
The California Riverside Mission area includes metropolitan cities expanding into citrus groves, rural landscapes with farms and ranches, high mountainous areas which receive snow in the winters and extensive desert areas with emerald-green oasis and retirement villages.
The first Saints in California arrived on the ship "Brooklyn" which sailed around the tip of South America from the east coast of the United States and landed in Yerba Buena in the summer of 1846. From this small colony of saints and other immigrants, the city of San Francisco began to develop.
In January 847, members of the Mormon Battalion marched across the lower half of California (through Temecula in the California Carlsbad Mission) on their way to the Pacific Coast. They helped build the city of San Diego and them marched north to Los Angeles, where they established an official American presence with the first raising of the U.S. flag in what was formerly a Mexican territory. Later, Battalion members were constructing a mill near Sutter's Fort when gold was discovered in the mill race. When they returned to their families in Salt Lake City, they pioneered a trail across the Sierra Nevada which would be used by thousands of immigrants streaming into California during the Gold Rush of 1849.
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