Mission Dolores Basilica

This guide to Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco starts with a startling fact: the ground beneath the adobe chapel holds as many as five thousand people, almost all unnamed. It traces the mission's founding in 1776, the Ohlone hands that raised its ten-foot mud-brick walls, and the disease and grief that followed for the families drawn or forced in from the surrounding hills. Look at the small cemetery beside the basilica - it's small because the city later paved over most of the graves for a street and a school.