• Sunlight illuminates the top of historic Mission San José de Tumacácori church.

    Tumacácori

    National Historical Park Arizona

Granary

Every mission had a storehouse, or granary, and while most of the second story of Tumacácori's granary had melted away before the Park Service took over administration of the site, it still requires yearly maintenance and preservation work to keep it in as close to an original condition as possible.
 
Preservation of the granary
Photo by David Yubeta
 
Lime plastering the granary
Photo by David Yubeta

Did You Know?

Mountains above Rancho Arizona

Arizona takes its name from a ranch of the same name, meaning "the good oak tree" in Basque, established by Bernardo de Urrea in 1735 in the rugged, mountain country about forty miles southwest of Tumacácori.