Missions in San Luis Obispo County
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa was founded on September 1, 1772 in the area that is now the city of San Luis Obispo. The namesake of the mission, city and county is Saint Louis of Toulouse, the young bishop of Toulouse (Obispo and Tolosa in Spanish) in 1297.
Mission San Luis Obispo Wikipedia page
Mission San Miguel Arcángel—named for the Archangel Saint Michael–was founded by Franciscan Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen in 1797.
Mission San Miguel Arcángel Wikipedia page
The Missions of San Luis Obispo Chapter IV from History of San Luis Obispo County, California; with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers by Myron Angel, 1883, pp32-40. Transcribed for the USGenWeb Archives by Joy Fisher.
The Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library is a non-profit educational and historical research institution which acquires, maintains and preserves books, maps, photographs, and documents, and other sources relating to the history of the California missions, Franciscan history, and the history of native peoples in the Southwest, up to roughly 1846.
The Early California Population Project provides public access to all the information contained in California’s historic mission registers, records that are of unique and vital importance to the study of California, the American Southwest, and colonial America. Within the baptism, marriage, and burial records of each of the California missions sits an extraordinary wealth of unique information on the Indians, soldiers, and settlers of Alta California from 1769-1850.