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Francisco Garcés

Spanish missionary

Also known as: Francisco Tomás Garcés

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settlement of Gila Bend

In Gila Bend
…Bautista de Anza and Father Francisco Garcés, who called it Santos Apóstoles San Simón y Judas. A colony of white men began a settlement in 1865 at the site of the old rancheria, and the settlement came to be known as Gila Bend. The town location later shifted because a…
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