Jamie Lyons

Mission San Francisco de Solano

the Sonoma Mission Indian Memorial honors the more than 800 native people (including 200+ children) who died while living and working at Mission San Francisco de Solano between. European diseases (measles and smallpox) for which Native Americans had no inherited resistance, with the overcrowded and unhealthful living conditions at all the California missions contributed to the high death rate.^a

• Lightfoot, Kent G. (2008). Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers. University of California Press.

Mission San Francisco de Solano
Sonoma