MISSION SANTA INES TOUR/SOLVANG CALIFORNIA

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The Missionary Franciscan fathers had con-
sidered the founding of a mission between
La Purisima and Santa Barbara for several
years because an inland Mission, north of
Santa Barbara, would solidify their work in
the area, relieve overcrowding at the two ex-
isting missions, and create a buffer zone to
the militant Tulare tribe who lived to the
northeast. In 1798. Father Fermín Lasuen
directed Father Estevan Tápis of Mission
Santa Barbara to accompany Captain Felipe
de Goycoechea to survey possible Mission
sites northeast of the coastal mountains.
Though they found a suitable site for the new
mission, at a between Mission Santa Bar-
bara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, it
would be six years before it was founded.