Mission San Luis

Archaeological Site and Living History Museum. Mission San Luis transports visitors to a community where Apalachee Indians and Spaniards were drawn together by religion, military and economic purposes. Today visitors to San Luis discover a re-created colonial town including a ...

Florida Wine Making/ Mission San Luis

ALTHOUGH CALIFORNIA IS CONSIDERED A PREMIER DESTINATION FOR WINE TASTING TODAY, WINE WAS BEING PRODUCED IN FLORIDA THREE HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE CALIFORNIA BECAME A STATE. AROUND 1565, FRENCH HUGUENOTS NEAR JACKSONVILLE REPORTEDLY CONVERTED FLORIDA’S WILD MUSCADINE GRAPES INTO THE FIRST ...

Unearthing Florida- Mission San Luis

Buried just beneath the red clay soil of the Tallahassee hills lies the remains of almost a dozen thriving Spanish Catholic missions.

Shortly after the founding of St. Augustine in 1565, missions were established along the Atlantic coastal plain and ...

Mission San Luis

The village that Spaniards called San Luis was always a prominent entity in Apalachee Province. It first appeared in the historical record as the capital village called Anhaica where de Soto wintered in 1539-40.

Shortly after the founding of St. ...

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa

1772

A Spanish mission founded by Fray Junipero Serra, O.F.M., First president of the California missions. This was the fifth in a chain of 21 missions stretching from San Diego to Sonoma. Built by the Chumash Indians living in the area. ...