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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BT9_southern-pacific-water-tower_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
The historic Southern Pacific Water Tower is located directly across the tracks from where you are standing. It looks much as it did when built in 1940 at a cost of $2,130. The Water Tower is located in it original position, across from the City's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BT3_san-luis-obispo-creek_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
Creek rises up in Cuesta Canyon and is joined by a creek from Reservoir Canyon. It meanders through the city until its (sic) covered by business buildings. It reappears at Mission Plaza. It was the first source of water for the mission. It flows i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BT1_general-john-c-fremont_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
and his command of 430 men of the Navy Battalion of Mounted Riflemen encamped near this site December 14-15 1846, on their march, which ended the Mexican regime in California.
Erected 1930 by San Luis Obispo School Children, Native Daughters an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BT0_san-luis-obispo-sesquicentennial_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
First founded by Spanish missionary Father Junipero Serra on September 1, 1772, this dusty mission town of San Luis Obispo was incorporated as general law city on February 19, 1856.
Today, the City of San Luis Obispo serves as the commercial, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17RP_de-anza-trek-reinactment_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
5-6 March 1976The mochila was passed between the San Luis Obispo and Monterey County contingents at this site on this date commemorating
The United States Bicentennial
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17RL_camp-roberts-veterans-memorial_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
In memory of those enlisted men who received their basic training at the Infantry Replacement Training Centre, Camp Roberts, California as members of "B" and "C" Companies of the 80th Infantry Training Battalion from August 30 to November 27, 1943…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM154R_pacific-coast-railway_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
The Pacific Coast Railway was completed to San Luis Obispo on Aug. 8, 1876 having started as a horsedrawn rail line on the Port Hartford Pier (Port San Luis) in 1873.
Three foot gauge steam engines took trains loaded with farm, dairy and oil pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZSS_victorias-chinatown_Victoria-BC.html
[English]This district, first settled in 1858, is the oldest and most intact Chinatown in Canada, representing an important chapter in the long history and heritage of Chinese Canadians. As the major immigrant port of entry on the west coast in th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZSR_love-and-double-joy_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
This mosaic tile mural, placed in the heart of the historic Chinatown District of San Luis Obispo, commemorates our City's Chinese pioneers. As immigrants they faced prejudice and exclusionary laws, but rose above such obstacles to make major cont…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPSB_juan-bautista-de-anza-national-historic-trail_San-Luis-Obispo-CA.html
Hope on the HorizonWhat would make a family leave their home for an unfamiliar land on a distant frontier? For the nearly 300 men, women, and children on the Anza Expedition, it was the chance for a fresh start. In 1775, life in northern Mexico wa…