Spanish missions in the Carolinas

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A plaque showing the locations of a third of the missions between 1565 and 1763

The Spanish missions in the Carolinas were part of a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics in order to spread the Christian doctrine among the local Native Americans. Spanish missions extended north almost to the site of present-day Charleston, and they remained until the arrival of the English (1670).http://www.cas.sc.edu/sciaa/staff/depratterc/archse1.html

Missions

• Mission Santa Elena (1566–1587), on Parris Island

See also

• Sebastián Montero