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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYH6_san-pasqual-battlefield_Escondido-CA.html
While marching to the conquest and occupation of California during the Mexican War, a detachment of 1st U.S. Dragoons, under the command of Brig. Gen. Stephen W. Kearny, was met on this site by native California lancers under, the command of Gen. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYH5_san-diego-barracks_San-Diego-CA.html
An army supply depot for Southern California was established on this site in 1850. Designated New San Diego Post, it was garrisoned by troops from December 2, 1858 to May, 1866. Reoccupied December 1869. Name changed to San Diego Barracks April 5,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYH4_oak-grove-stage-station_Warner-Springs-CA.html
Occupied in 1858 by Warren Hall, Divison Superintendent, Butterfield Overland Mail which operated between San Francisco and the eastern termini, St. Louis and Memphis, from September 15, 1858 to March 2, 1861. The first mail stage from the east dr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYH3_camp-wright_Warner-Springs-CA.html
First established October 18, 1861, on Warner's Ranch at "Fork of the Trail to San Diego", to guard the communications between California and Arizona. Moved to this site by Major Edwin A. Rigg, First California Volunteers, about November 23, 1861.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYH2_julian_Ramona-CA.html
Following the discovery of gold nearby during the winter of 1869-70, this valley became the commercial and social center of a thriving mining district. Ex-Confederate soldier Drury D. Baily laid out the town on his farmland and named it for his co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYH0_campo-stone-store_Campo-CA.html
The pioneer Gaskill brothers of 1868 built a frame store which was raided on December 4, 1875, by border bandits. This fort-like replacement of summer, 1885, was bought in 1896 by E.T. Aiken, resold to Klauber Wangenheim, 1889, and operated by Hen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGZ_santa-ysabel-asistencia-site_Santa-Ysabel-CA.html
Father Fernando Martin celebrated the first mass on Sept. 20, 1818 at a site nearby, an outpost of Mission San Diego. By 1822 Santa Ysabel had a chapel, cemetery, granary, many houses, and 450 neophytes. After secularization in the 1830s, priestly…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGX_warner-ranch-house_Warner-Springs-CA.html
In 1844, Gov. Manuel Micheltorena granted 44,322 acres to Juan Jose Warner who built this house. Gen. Kearny passed here in 1846; Mormon Battalion in 1847. First Butterfield Stage stopped at this ranch on Oct. 6, 1858 enroute from Tipton, Mo. to S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGW_la-asistencia-de-san-antonio-de-pala_Pala-CA.html
Notable for its bell-tower or campanile. The chapel was built by Father Peyri, 1816. Almost destroyed by earthquake and storm. But later restored. Indians are still at Pala.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGV_casa-de-carrillo_San-Diego-CA.html
Presidio Comandante Francisco Maria Ruiz built this house next to his 1808 pear garden late in 1821 for his close relative and fellow soldier, Joaquin Carrillo, and his large family. From this adobe dwelling, in April 1829, daughter Josefa Carrill…