MISSION OF SAN MIGUEL, FOUNDED IN 1797.
“It once had its work-shops and little factories where good padres taught the Indians useful arts.”
SUPPLEMENTARY LIST
Arroyo Grande (big creek), a village in San Luís Obispo County, fifteen miles southeast of San Luís Obispo.
Atascadero (boggy ground, quagmire).
Avenal (a field sown with oats).
Buchón (big craw), is the name of the point on the coast directly opposite the town of San Luís Obispo, and has a significance not altogether agreeable. The Spanish soldiers called the place Buchón from an Indian in the neighborhood who was the unfortunate possessor of an enormous goitre, which was so large that it hung down upon his breast.