Santa Cruz County AZ Archives History - Businesses .....Ruins Of Tumacacori Mission 1881
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RUINS OF TUMACACORI MISSION.

  The ruins of the Mission of St. Joseph Tumacacori, are about four miles from
the town of Tubac. The first mission erected, or established in this immediate
locality, was consecrated at Tubac in 1750, and was called the Santa Gertrudes
Mission. This building was shortly afterward destroyed by Apaches. In 1751 a
church was built upon the site now occupied by the ruins above-named. This
edifice shared the same fate as that of the Santa Gertrudes Mission at or about
the same time. In just fifty years afterwards a new church was erected, and the
ruins of Tumacacori constitute what is left of it, it having also been destroyed
or partially destroyed by the Apaches eighteen years after its consecration. The
seeker after information will discover that the main building was at least one
hundred feet in length by fifty feet in width; that it was substantially and
elaborately constructed of sun-burnt and kiln-burnt bricks, which were put
together with a sort of cement and concrete; that it was well timbered and well
roofed, and surmounted by two domes.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

ARIZONA BUSINESS DIRECTORY AND GAZETTEER;
CONTAINING THE
Names and Post-Office Addresses of all Merchants, Manufacturers and Professional
Men in the Territory of Arizona;

TERRITORIAL, COUNTY, CITY AND TOWN OFFICERS.

A DESCRIPTION OF THE DIFFERENT MINING DISTRICTS AND THE NAMES OF MINING
SUPERINTENDENTS.

ALSO, A GAZETTEER OF THE COUNTIES, CITIES AND TOWNS,
Giving a full exhibit of their Mineral, Agricultural and Manufacturing Resources.

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF WHOLESALE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS IN
THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO.

W. C. DISTURNELL,
COMPILER AND PUBLISHER,
534 California Street, San Francisco, Cal.
BACON & COMPANY, PRINTERS.
l88l.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1881,
By W. C. DISTURNELL,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.


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