The Ciurca Eurypterid Collection Sam Ciurca (at left) and Erik Tetlie hold important specimens of Eurypterus remipes lacustris (YPM.207290) from the Late Silurian Williamsville Formation at Bennett Quarry, Buffalo, New York, USA.
San Diego Historic Landmark. Mission Basilica San Diego de AlcalÃ¡ was the first Franciscan mission in The Californias, a province of New Spain. Located in present-day San Diego, California, it was founded on July 16, 1769 by Spanish friar JunÃ­pero Serra in an area long inhabited by the Kumeyaay.
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).