Mission San José de Tumacácori

Mission San José de Tumacácori
	The chapel of Mission San José de Tumacácori
Location	near Nogales, Arizona
Name as founded	La Misión San José de Tumacácori
English translation	The Mission of Saint Joseph of the Rocky Flat Place
Patron	Saint Joseph
Founding date	January 1691; 333 years ago
Founding priest(s)	Father Eusebio Francisco Kino
Native tribe(s); Spanish name(s)	Pima
Governing body	National Park Service
Current use	Nonextant (San Cayetano); Historic Monument (San José)

Mission San José de Tumacácori (O'odham: Cemagĭ Gakolig) is a historic Spanish mission near Nogales, Arizona, preserved in its present form by Franciscans in 1828.

History

Mission San Cayetano del Tumacácori was established by Jesuits in 1691 in a location near a Sobaipuri settlement on the east side of the Santa Cruz River. Services were held in a small adobe structure built by the inhabitants of the village.^[1]

After the O'odham rebellion of 1751 the mission was abandoned for a time. In 1752, the village was reestablished and in 1753 the church of the Mission San José de Tumacácori began construction at the present site on the west side of the Santa Cruz River. This first church structure was erected for use by the mission in 1757. The architectural style of the church is Spanish Colonial.

Rumors spread within the Spanish kingdom that the Jesuit priests had amassed a fortune on the peninsula and were becoming very powerful. On February 3, 1768 King Carlos III ordered the Jesuits forcibly expelled from the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México) and returned to Spain.

The mission is now part of Tumacácori National Historical Park, which contains three separate sections.^[2] This mission site is included in the Tumacácori National Historical Park that extends for 360 acres (1.5 km²), and is open to the public daily.

Historic Mission San José de Tumacácori gallery

These are images of the inside of the Tumacacori Mission and of the Cemetery grounds.^[3]^[4]

Historic structures in Tumacacori

Mission San José de Tumacácori
Sanctuary as it once looked
Sanctuary as it looks now
Inside Mission San José de Tumacácori
Another view inside Mission San José de Tumacácori
Rotunda
Sacristy
Mission Fountain
Mortuary chapel' and rear of church, 1937
Mortuary Chapel
Inside the Mortuary Chapel
Tumacacori Cemetery
Tumacacori Cemetery graves
Storage house
Compuerta

References

^ Deni J. Seymour documented and excavated this original native site and mission location.
"Delicate Diplomacy on a Restless Frontier: Seventeenth-Century Sobaípuri Social And Economic Relations in Northwestern New Spain, Part I." New Mexico Historical Review, Volume 82, no. 4; 2007.
^ "Tumacácori National Historical Park". National Park Service. Retrieved 2011-08-21.
^ Visitor Center and Museum
^ Mission Tumacacori

Additional references

Di Peso, Charles C., 1956; The Upper Pima of San Cayetano del Tumacacori: An Archaeohistorical Reconstruction of the Ootam of Pimeria Alta. The Amerind Foundation, Inc. Dragoon, Arizona.
Dobyns, Henry F., 1959; Tubac Through Four Centuries: A Historical Resume and Analysis. Prepared for the Arizona State Parks Board 15 March 1959, Reformatted by Tubac Presidio State Historical Park August 1995 and revised. Available on line at: http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/tubac/index.html
Doyel, D. E., 1977 Excavations in the Middle Santa Cruz River Valley, Southeastern Arizona. Contribution to Highway Salvage Archaeology in Arizona, Number 44. Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Fratt, Lee, 1981; Tumacacori Plaza Excavation, 1979: Historical Archaeology at Tumacacori National Monument, Arizona. Publications in Anthropology 16. Tucson, AZ: Western Archaeological and Conservation Center, National Park Service.
Seymour, Deni J., 1993; "Piman Settlement Survey in the Middle Santa Cruz River Valley, Santa Cruz County, Arizona." Report submitted to Arizona State Parks in fulfillment of survey and planning grant contract requirements.
Seymour, Deni J., 2007a; "Delicate Diplomacy on a Restless Frontier: Seventeenth-Century Sobaípuri Social And Economic Relations in Northwestern New Spain, Part I." New Mexico Historical Review, Volume 82, no. 4.
Seymour, Deni J., 2008; "Delicate Diplomacy on a Restless Frontier: Seventeenth-Century Sobaípuri Social And Economic Relations in Northwestern New Spain, Part II." New Mexico Historical Review, Volume 83, no. 2.
Seymour, Deni J., 2007b; "A Syndetic Approach to Identification of the Historic Mission Site of San Cayetano del Tumacácori." International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Vol. 11(3):269–296. doi:10.1007%2Fs10761-007-0031-9

External links

NPS – Tumacácori National Historical Park: Mission San José de Tumacácori
NPS – Kino Missions: Mission San José de Tumacácori
Mission San José de Tumacácori (photographs)
Photographs and architectural drawings of Tumacacori Mission from Historic American Buildings Survey
Tumacacori Mission Cemetery at Find a Grave

31°34′06″N 111°03′03″W / 31.568430°N 111.050883°W / 31.568430; -111.050883

[1] Deni J. Seymour documented and excavated this original native site and mission location.
"Delicate Diplomacy on a Restless Frontier: Seventeenth-Century Sobaípuri Social And Economic Relations in Northwestern New Spain, Part I." New Mexico Historical Review, Volume 82, no. 4; 2007.

[2] "Tumacácori National Historical Park". National Park Service. Retrieved 2011-08-21.

[3] Visitor Center and Museum

[4] Mission Tumacacori