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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27DA_port-san-luis_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
Three panels are located on the Harford Pier outline the history of Port San Luis.
Port San Luis - A Gateway Through Time Geology
Bays are formed over thousands of years by erosion. Less resistant rock is weathered away by waves over t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27CD_sailing-ship-anchor_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
Circa 1850
Found by
Marion Shinn
While Diving
Here in 1977
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27CC_port-harford-wharf-pacific-coast-railway_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
John Harford Wharf & Horse drawn/gravity railroad 1873
Pacific Coast Steamship Company organized 1876
Pacific Coast Railway ( PCRR, SLO & SMVRR) 1882
Vision & enterprise of the narrow gauge railroad expanded trade & settlement on the Califo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27CB_port-harford-pier_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
In 1873 Entrepreneur John Harford built a wharf at the westerly end of San Luis Bay to accommodate growing cargo shipping and passenger travel on the Central Coast. The Port Harford pier extended 2,000 feet into the bay and provided horse-drawn ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C1V_pier-into-the-past_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
Cal Poly's Pier has undergone change throughout its history, shifting purpose from industrial use to a center for marine research & education. For thousands of years the Chumash Native Americans made their home on the Central Coast, including the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B0K_rios-caledonia-adobe_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
This imposing building is an excellent example of California Mexican Era architecture. Using Indian labor, Petronilo Rios built the two-story Adobe about 1846 as his residence and headquarters for sheep and cattle operations. Named "Caledonia" in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1850_mission-san-miguel-arcangel_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
Selecting this site because of the great number of Salinan Indians living hereabout. Fray Fermin Francisco de Lasuen, O.F.M., second president of the California Missions. Founded San Miguel Archangel on July 25,1797. The sixteenth in a chain of tw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM14R0_lt-col-john-c-fremont_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
Lt. Col. John C. Fremontand his 430 American volunteers camped on this hill December 10 - 11, 1846 and took the Mission San Miguel.
Fremont's march from San Juan Bautista to San Fernando brought about the Cahuenga Capitulation January 13, 1847,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPRW_mustang-memorial-plaza_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
On October 29, 1960, a chartered aircraft carrying the Cal Poly Mustang Football Team crashed on takeoff at the Toledo, Ohio Airport. Sixteen Mustang football players, the team manager, and a Mustang booster were killed in the crash and twenty-two…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPQO_the-old-powerhouse_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
The old powerhouse was built in 1908, and is the oldest building on the Cal Poly campus. It utilized student labor in its construction, thus embodying "learn by doing". From 1910 to 1940 it supplied all of the electricity and stream heat for the c…