The PA Department of Transportation has contracted with A. Folino Construction regarding the upcoming resurfacing project along Ferguson Road (from Mt. Royal Blvd. to Duncan Ave.). Work to begin in mid August... Read on...
In 1740, the Lipan Apache Band village site was spotted some 50 miles Northwest of todays San Antonio, Texas at Tancahe Camp on the Rio Colorado de Texas. In 1757, the Colonial Spanish Government built the Mission San Saba de la Santa Cruz for the Lipan Apache Band of Texas. Mission San Saba de la Santa Cruz is found ninety miles Northeast of San Antonio, Texas and is found on the banks of the San Saba River.
His first building of a mission was in Baja in 1768. He was then transferred to California in 1773, basing his service out of San Diego. De Lasuen became President of the Missions in 1785 and built substantially on the work of his predecessor, Father Junipero Serra. He founded nine of California's 21 missions: Santa Barbara (1786), La Purisima Concepcion (1787), Santa Cruz (1791), Nuestra Senora De La Soledad (1791), San Jose (1797), San Juan Bautista (1797), San Miguel Arcangel (1797), San Fernando Re De Espana (1797), and San Luis Rey De Franca (1798).