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California Historical Landmarks (PH 9-13)(Before 1969) (134 pages)
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FORT STOCKTON
This fortification dates from about 1838 when San Diegans threw
54 up earthworks here in preparation for an offensive from Los
Angeles. It was rebuilt in 1846 as an U.S. Army fortification. It
was here on January 29, 1847, that the Mormon Battalion ended
their march from Council Bluffs.
Presidio Park, Old Town, San Diego (San Diego)
FORT ROSECRANS NATIONAL CEMETERY
Shortly after the boundaries of Fort Rosecrans were established
in 1852, this military cemetery, overlooking a number of earlier
and wholly obliterated burial places of white men, was established. The name “Bennington” commemorates, as does the obelisk, the death of about 60 men and boys on duty aboard the
USS gunboat Bennington in San Diego harbor July 21, 1905.
Most of these victims were buried here.
Cabrillo Memorial Drive, Point Loma, San Diego (San Diego)
TIP OF BALLAST POINT
In 1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed, discovered, and took
56 possession of Upper California in the name of Spain. He applied
the name San Miguel to this port. In 1602 Sebastian Vizcaino
landed, at which time the name of San Diego was first applied
to this port.
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Fort Rosecrans Military Reservation, Point Loma, San Diego (San
Diego)
LA PUNTA DE LOS MUERTOS
Burial site of sailors and marines in 1872 when San Diego Bay
was surveyed and charted by Don Juan Pantoja y Arriaga,
pilot, and Don José Tovar, mate, of the royal frigates La Princesa
and La Favorita under command of Don Augustin de Echeverria.
US Highway 101 and Market Street, San Diego (San Diego)
OLD CALIFORNIA-OREGON ROAD
This marks the location of the main artery of travel used by
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Pegi,
58 pioneers between Trinity River and the northern mines of California and Oregon.
1.7 miles north of Anderson (Shasta)
SAN DIEGO PRESIDIO SITE
In this Indian village of Cosoy, discovered and named San
59 Miguel by Cabrillo and christened San Diego de Alcala by Vizcaino, Fray Junipero Serra planted civilization in California. It
was here he first raised the cross and began the first mission,
July 16, 1769.
Presidio Park, San Diego (San Diego)
CASA DE LOPEZ
Built by Juan Francisco Lépez, one of San Diego’s early Spanish
60 settlers, the Casa Larga, or Long House, was among the first
substantial houses built in the Pueblo of San Diego, about 1835.
In 1846 it was the home of Juan Matias Moreno, secretary to
Pio Pico, California’s last Mexican governor.
3890 Twiggs Street, Old Town, San Diego (San Diego)
QUARANTINE STATION (OLD LA PLAYA)
On this site stood “Hide Park” (La Playa) trading station and
61 hide storage depot for the Pacific coast. This also was the scene
of Richard Henry Dana Jr.’s hide droghing operations as described in Two Years Before the Mast; and the Hide House
“Brookline,” where in 1829 the American Flag was first unofficially raised in California.
Naval Electronic Laboratory, San Diego (San Diego)
FORT ROSECRANS
U.S. military reservation established on Point Loma, February
62 28, 1870. Named in honor of General William S. Rosecrans, who
visited San Diego in 1867.
Point Loma, San Diego (San Diego)
PLAZA, SAN DIEGO VIEJO (WASHINGTON SQUARE)
This plaza was established as the center of the Mexic 1 ; E an Pueblo of
63 San Diego which elected its first ajuntamiento in 1834, On ‘yoly.