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Rafael Mamudes was a native of Hermosillo and led an adventurous life. He was once a baker and followed his trade to Monterey. He also mined at Calaveras County and made a sea voyage to Guaymas, Mexico. When he came here to San Diego, he supported…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7PY_serra-palm_San-Diego-CA.html
Traditionally the earliest planted tree in California. Directly in the rear, beneath the brow of the hill, lie the dead of the sacred expedition of 1769. Burial place of our first unknown soldiers.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7PX_el-camino-real_San-Diego-CA.html
This plaque is placed on the 250th anniversary of the birth of California's Apostle Padre Junipero Serra O.F.M., to mark the Southern terminus of El Camino Real as Padre Serra knew it and helped to blaze it. 1713 - November 24 - 1963California …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7LO_fort-stockton_San-Diego-CA.html
Fortified briefly by Carlos Carrillo in 1838. This site became Fort Dupont (July -November 1846) after American forces took Old Town during the Mexican War. Retaken and held briefly by the Californios, it fell once more to the Americans, who renam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7LL_estudillo-house_San-Diego-CA.html
Has been designated aRegistered National Historic LandmarkUnder the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935This site possesses exceptional valuein commemorating or illustrating the history of the United States
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7LH_casa-de-pedrorena-de-altamirano_San-Diego-CA.html
Miguel Pedrorena Jr. built this adobe structure in 1869. It was the final adobe built in Old Town. In January 1871 Pedrorena gave the building to his sister Isabel de Altamirando, joining together two pioneer California families. Isabel and her hu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7J1_el-campo-santo-the-holy-field_San-Diego-CA.html
El Campo Santo once included The Adobe Chapel on Conde Street, in which is buried Jose Antonio Aguirre and where funeral services were held for Maria Victoria Dominguez Estrillo, Cave Johnson Couts, and many distinguished early San Diegans, betwee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7IT_birthplace-of-the-san-diego-union_San-Diego-CA.html
This birthplace of the San Diego UnionOctober 10, 1868Oldest daily in Southern California,is declared to be aHISTORIC SITE IN JOURNALISMby San Diego Professional ChapterSIGMA DELTA CHI
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7IQ_birthplace-of-the-san-diego-union_San-Diego-CA.html
A pioneer newspaper of CaliforniaFounded October 10, 1868
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7IH_adobe-chapel-of-the-immaculate-conception_San-Diego-CA.html
Originally built as the home of San Diego's John Brown in 1850, the house was converted to a church by Don Jose Aguirre in 1858. Father Antonio D. Ubach , formally a missionary among the Indians, was parish priest here from 1866 to 1907. It is sai…
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