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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGT_el-desembarcadero_San-Diego-CA.html
A landing near this point was used on May 1, 1769, by men from the San Antonio and San Carlos to bring fresh water from the San Diego River close by to the anchorage in the bay. For almost a century the landing and channel were used by freight and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGS_old-la-playa_San-Diego-CA.html
From 1770 to 1870, this was San Diego's port. Over the Brookline hide house, Americans unofficially raised a U.S. flag in 1829. At that time La Playa was a thriving trading and shipping village. Richard Henry Dana's account of the hide business in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGR_la-punta-de-los-muertos_San-Diego-CA.html
Burial site of Sailors and Marines in 1782 when San Diego Bay was surveyed & charted by Don Juan Pantoja y Arriaga, pilot, and Don Jos? Tovar, mate, of the Royal frigate "La Pincesa" and "La Favorita" under command of Don Augustin de Echeverria.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYGQ_mission-dam-and-flume_Santee-CA.html
Mission Dam and Flume After many attempts dating back to 1774 to provide a reliable source of water for crops and livestock for Mission San Diego de Alcala, a dam and flume system was finished between 1813 and 1816 by Indian laborers and Francisc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYB4_star-of-india_San-Diego-CA.html
The "Star of India," a three masted bark, is the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship afloat. Built on the Isle of Man, Great Britain, she was launched in 1863 and christened "Euterpe", the trans-Pacific trade from 1871-1898 resulted in the "Euterpe" …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYAO_uss-recruit_San-Diego-CA.html
This 2/3 scale model of a destroyer escort (TDE-1) helped instruct as many as 50,000 naval recruits annually in basic naval procedure. Commissioned 27 July 1949, the Recruit was the Navy's only commissioned ship never to reach water. The Recruit w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY8Q_north-chapel-building-208_San-Diego-CA.html
Completed in 1942, The North Chapel Building featured leaded glass windows representing the 41 different training schools on site and one window representing the recruit. As the recruits at the Naval Training Center practiced many different religi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY8P_command-center-building-200_San-Diego-CA.html
Built in 1941, The Command Center was the focal point of the base. These were offices for the highest-ranking officers, including the Admiral in Command of the Center; the Station Commander, a Captain in charge of the buildings; the Recruit Traini…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY71_el-camino-real-bell_Oceanside-CA.html
Panel 1: This bell marks a place along the original route of El Camino Real, "The Kings Highway", which connects the 21 missions from San Diego to Sonoma. Suspended from a pipe resembling a shepherd's staff, the first bell was erected in 1906, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXZR_santa-catarina_Borrego-Springs-CA.html
This spring area was named by Captain Juan Bautista De Anza when his Overland Exploration party camped here on March 14, 1774. During the opening of the Anza Trail from Sonora into Alta California. Anza's colonizing expedition of 1775, consisting …