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===Original mission=== [[File:Ruins of Mission La Purisima Concepcion, ca.1885-1904 (CHS-1803).jpg|thumb|right|Ruins of Mission La Purisima Concepcion, ca.1885-1904]] Mission La Purísima was originally established at a site known to the [[Chumash people]] as Algsacpi and to the Spanish as the plain of Río Santa Rosa, one mile south of Lompoc. (During the mission period, the Chumash spoke the [[Purisimeño language]].)<ref>{{Cite web| title = Purisimeño| access-date = July 22, 2012 | url = http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~survey/languages/purisimeno.php| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120602011758/http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~survey/languages/purisimeno.php| archive-date = June 2, 2012| url-status = dead}}</ref> The [[Viceroyalty of New Spain]] made an exception to the rule that no [[Spanish missions in California|California mission]] was to be established within seven miles of any pueblo in [[Las Californias]], as Lompoc was so small. The site was the location of the mission from its founding on December 8, 1787, by [[Fermín Lasuén]] till it was destroyed by the [[1812 Ventura earthquake]] on December 12, 1812. The original mission was associated with the [[Presidio of Santa Barbara]]. Fermín Lasuén (1736–1803) was a [[Spaniards|Spanish]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Douglass|first1=William A.|last2=Douglass|first2=Bilbao, J.|date=2005|title=Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8KzfK1QwxDIC|location=Reno, NV|publisher=University of Nevada Press|isbn=0-87417-625-5|access-date=February 16, 2014|page=192}}{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Franciscan]] [[missionary]] to [[Alta California]] and the president of the Franciscan missions. He was the founder of nine of the twenty-one [[Spanish missions in California]] including original Mission La Purísima, the 11th mission.<ref>Yenne, p. 104</ref> By 1803, the Mission Indian population had increased, by [[Indian Reductions]], to 1,436 Chumash people. At the mission there were also 3,230 cattle, 5,400 sheep, 306 horses, and 39 mules. In the same year, there was a harvest of 690 fanegas of wheat, corn and beans (a fanega equaling about 220 pounds). The mission grew from its founding to be 330 feet square [[Quadrangle (architecture)|quadrangle]] made of [[adobe]] bricks. The original mission had many rooms for the two priests, the evangelized [[Chumash (tribe)|Chumash]] and for a chapel, six soldiers, married Indians and unmarried females. At its peak about 1,520 Chumash Indian lived at the mission. The original mission was south of the [[Santa Ynez River]] and included vast [[crop]] and [[Grazing|grazing land]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://missionscalifornia.com/la-purisima-concepcion-mission/historic-images |title=missionscalifornia.com, La Purísima Concepción Historic Images |access-date=September 26, 2022 |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506214546/https://missionscalifornia.com/la-purisima-concepcion-mission/historic-images |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>[https://californiamissionsfoundation.org/mission-la-purisima/ californiamissionsfoundation.org, Mission La Purisima]</ref> An earthquake on [[1812 Ventura earthquake|December 21, 1812]], severely damaged the mission buildings.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Significant Earthquakes and Faults Chronological Earthquake Index: The December 21, 1812 Earthquake|url=https://scedc.caltech.edu/significant/wrightwood1812.html#sbar|access-date=November 16, 2020|website=Southern California Earthquake Data Center}}</ref> The site became a California State Historical Landmark No. 928 on June 29, 1979. Ruins of the original mission are at 508 South F Street, near East Locust Avenue in [[Lompoc, California]]. The California State Historical Landmark reads: :''NO. 928 SITE OF ORIGINAL MISSION AND REMAINING RUINS OF BUILDINGS OF MISSION DE LA PURÍSIMA CONCEPCIÓN DE MARÍA SANTISIMA - The ruins at this site are part of the original Mission La Purísima, founded by Padre Fermín de Lasuén on December 8, 1787, as the 11th in the chain of Spanish Missions in California. The mission was destroyed by earthquake on December 12, 1812, the present Mision (mission) La Purisima was then established several miles away. '' <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com/landmarks/chl-928 |title=californiahistoricallandmarks.com # 928 |access-date=September 26, 2022 |archive-date=September 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926140332/https://www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com/landmarks/chl-928 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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