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SAN LUIS OBISPO
San Luis Obispo, named for the Mission, was one of the
original twenty-seven counties of the state. San Luis Obispo
has been the county seat continuously. It was in November
of 1846 that John C. Fremont led a small army, one rainy
night, to attack the sleepy town. Believing the town to be
heavily garrisoned Fremont rode down the main street and
made the villagers prisoners. Fremont reported, "He had
brilliantly captured San Luis Obispo without bloodshed. It
detracted somewhat from its brilliancy when it was found
that there was nothing to surrender and the army was un-
comfortably wet. The town grew up around the mission, the
fifth of the chain. In 1844 the mission was formed into a
pueblo that was incorporated in 1856 as a city . . . M.P.
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