Santa Inés Virgen y Mártir, Solvang 19th mission 1804 Explore all of California’s 21 famed missions >> This was a smallish mission, with a population that never reached 1,000.

Mission Santa Ines serves as an anchor point for the Santa Ynez Valley while also acting as a cultural and historical jewel. “As important as it was for the community historically, ...

July 4, 1817: The new Mission Santa Ines (the original was destroyed in an earthquake Dec. 21, 1812) was dedicated. July 2, 1873: Martin Luther Tunnell filed an application for a homestead on 160 ...

Father Gerald Barron Paul Wellman. Amid the red tile roofs, white-washed adobe walls, arched colonnades, and towering campanile of Mission Santa Inés, there lies a lush garden set in the shape of a ...

Members of the Conference of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul at Old Mission Santa Inés parish and the mission's pastor, Father Matthew Elshoff, were honored by the Society of ...

The California Missions Foundation recently announced receipt of a $500,000 federal matching grant from the National Parks Service for the structural retrofit of Mission Santa Inés.