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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: March 20, 2013
Caption: Mission Reservoir
Additional Description: A few feet in back of this sign are the original retaining walls of the reservoir constructed in the early days of the mission.
To fill the reservoir Padre Buenaventura Sitjar tapped the San Antonio River about three miles above the mission and by means of an aqueduct carried the water to this basin.
Much of the primitive structure is visible. The irrigation system established by Padre Sitjar is considered by experts to be one of the finest engineering feats of early California history.
Submitted: April 15, 2013, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p238917
File Size: 3.426 Megabytes

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