September California Trip
9/9  •  Garcés Baptismal Site

3rd stop on the 1st day of a multi-day road trip.  On CA-155 east of Delano, CA. 

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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