This year is the 236th anniversary of the founding of the La Purisima Mission in Lompoc — the only mission of the 21 in California that had two locations and
In Santa Barbara County, each of the three missions had their own wine producing vineyards and wineries. One of the first and largest was the vineyard at San Francisquito, for
Visitors on Saturday experienced a re-creation of mission life in the 1820s at La Purísima Mission in Lompoc with demonstrations on lifestyle activities from the era.