Garcés Baptismal Site

Garcés Baptismal Site (HM1KS8)

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Three miles north of this point was the site of the first recorded Christian baptism in the San Joaquin Valley. On May 23, 1776, Padre Francisco Garcés, earliest non-Indian in this area, baptized an Indian boy whom he called Muchachito at a Yokuts Rancheria in Grizzly Gulch.
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HM NumberHM1KS8
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Marker Number631
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Date Added Thursday, May 28th, 2015 at 2:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)31N E 166021 N 0
Decimal Degrees0.00000000, 0.00000000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 0° 0', E 0° 0'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds0° 0' 0.0000" N, 0° 0' 0.0000" E
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