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Founded 29 years after the first mission, the aptly named "King of Missions" quickly outstripped its brethren to become the most populous of all Spanish missions in California after humble beginnings in 1798. Gathering converts from the Payomkowishum Indian tribes living in the hills near present-day Oceanside, by 1825 San Luis Rey was home to over 2,800 "Luiseños," roughly three times the number of neophytes at the average mission. Despite this prosperity, however, the eighteenth mission…

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