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This quarry supplied stone for building Mission Concepción and parts of Mission San José. Indian and Mestizo laborers cut grooves in the limestone with picks and axes, then used bars and wedges to pry up rough blocks, which stonemasons shaped and finished. In building the missions, the Franciscans adapted European and Moorish architectural traditions to local materials and local labor.
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