With a population of approximately 1,500,
San Miguel is a small town in Central California’s Wine Country,
adjacent to Highway 101. The jewel of the town is the famous
Mission San Miguel Arcangel founded by Franciscan Father Fermin
Lasuen in 1797. The “town” of San Miguel, likely began with the
Rios-Caldeonia Adobe, which was constructed in 1835. By 1871, a
stagecoach ran daily from San Miguel to San Luis Obispo, and in
1886, Southern Pacific Railroad reached San Miguel. Shortly
thereafter, the town was leveled by a disastrous fire, and the new
town was rebuilt north of the Mission.
