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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16YI_duartes-store_Monterey-CA.html
Rosario Duarte introduced salmon trolling to Monterey Bay in 1878. His store was a popular local meeting place. Relocated in 1922 it became a dry goods business operated by Chinese merchant Louis Jang into the 1940's.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16YH_thomas-cole-house_Monterey-CA.html
Thomas Cole, an English sawyer, built this home for his family in 1856. Used over time as a dwelling house, it became the headquarters for the local Nationalist Chinese Political Party in the early 1940's.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16YF_earthquake-bell_Monterey-CA.html
This bell was salvaged from the ruins of the 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco and hung at the McMenamin's Mission Inn.
Robert C. Littlefield acquired it in 1961 and placed it in his garden home.His widow Patricia donated it to the Sensory Gard…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16YD_perry-house_Monterey-CA.html
Victorian home built in 1860 by whaling captain Manuel Perry and his wife Mary de Mello Silva, of Boston. The house remained in the family until 1963. Restored in 1967.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16W3_presidio-of-monterey-museum_Monterey-CA.html
Most of the wooden buildings on Presidio Hill below the Defense Language Institute complex were constructed from 1902 to 1906 by the 15th Infantry under the direction of Army Captain E.H. Plummer. The museum building was originally the post's maga…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16W1_fort-mervine_Monterey-CA.html
First American fort in California. Built in 1846-47. Named in honor of Navy Captain William Mervine who directed the raising of the American flag over the Custom House in 1846.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16VN_here-landed-very-rev-father-junipero-serra_Monterey-CA.html
Here June 3, 1770, landed Very Rev. Father Junipero Serra, O.S.F. and founded the following missions; San Diego, July 16, 1769, San Carlos Monterey, June 3, 1770, San Antonio de Padua, July 14, 1771, San Gabriel, Sept. 8, 1771, San Luis Obispo, Se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16VM_el-castillo-de-monterey_Monterey-CA.html
Site of a Spanish fort constructed in 1792 to protect the port and presidio of Monterey from invaders. This is one of only three such forts constructed by the Spanish in California.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16VL_el-castillo-site_Monterey-CA.html
This old Spanish fort began as eleven guns behind a crude parapet of logs overlooking the anchorage of Monterey Bay in 1972. The battery was strengthen and enlarged over the years and served as the principal fort in Monterey for both the Spanish a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16UQ_the-argentine-navy_Monterey-CA.html
Spanish:La Armada ArgentinaA traves de los estudiantes pretenecientes al consejo Argentino de intercambio estudiantil - CADIE recuedrdan el 161 aniverdario en que el capitan de navio Dn. Hipolito Bouchard hizo flamear el pabellon Argentino en San …