English settlers led by Captain Jose Moraga and Father Francisco Palou established the first mission in San Francisco in 1776, original place of creation of the mission was on the corner of Camp and dzisiajeszych Albion Street, two blocks east of the current location of Mission Dolores. Formally known as Mission San Francisco de Assisi, was the sixth of 21 missions built between 1769 and 1823 by the Franciscans in the way of El Camino Real, which linked a series of missions ranging from Mexico to Sonoma, California. Built by the Indians Costanoan, the present building was dedicated to the mission użydku in 1791 and is the oldest structure still standing in San Francisco. His half-meter thick walls of brick Adobe helped to survive the mission four great earthquakes. After the secularization of the mission in 1834 by the Spaniards, Mission Dolores was used as a hotel, dance hall and later a brewery, until the return to the bosom of the Catholic church in 1857. The wooden skeleton of the building, originally wrapped raw skin was reinforced with steel beams in 1918. Basilica of San Francisco find next mission. 
In 1776, a lake called Laguna de Nuestra Senora de los Dolores (Lake of Our Lady of Sorrows)
covered the area bounded by 15th Street to the present, Guerrero, 23th and Harrison.
commemorative marker on the corner of Albion and Camp. 
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