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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KRJ_sam-morse_Del-Monte-Forest-CA.html
Sam Morse was a preservationist long before fashionable. In 1915, he was sent by the Pacific Improvement Company to liquidate its land holdings in the region, including the area now known as Pebble Beach. Instead of pursing the liquidation, Morse …
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This house was constructed in 1834 by Thomas Oliver Larkin, the only United States Consul in California under Mexican rule, it has been used as a private residence, the United States Consulate, City Hall, and served as Headquarters of General Step…
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Kalisa Moore, known as "Queen of Cannery Row," was born in Latvia and came to America after WWII. She bridged the eras, opening her gourmet restaurant when most of the canneries had closed. Over the years "Kalisa's" became a bohemian coffee hou…
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The building historically contained Edith's Restaurant, the model for John Steinbeck's La Ida Café and the character of Wide Ida in The Novellas Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday
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This Monument pays tribute to the many diverse characters vital to the evolution of Cannery Row. Perched atop the rocky outcropping sits Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck, who immortalized Cannery Row with his novel of the same name. He is…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JPW_the-salinas-railway-station_Salinas-CA.html
The train was important to Salinas and to agriculture. Steinbeck's characters arrive and leave at the Salinas train station. Molly Morgan arrives at the train depot before taking the bus to the pastures of heaven in East of Eden, Adam's first loa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1H2O_custom-house_Monterey-CA.html
Constructed in 1827 by the Mexican government to collect custom duties from foreign shipping, a principal revenue source when Monterey was the capital of Alta California, Mexico's northernmost province. Thomas O. Larkin, US consul to Alta Californ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1D83_sloat-monument_Monterey-CA.html
To commemorate the taking possession of California by Commodore John Drake Sloat United States Navy July 7 1846
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BYA_salinas-temporary-detention-center_Salinas-CA.html
This monument is dedicated to the 3,586 Monterey Bay Area residents of Japanese ancestry, most of whom were American citizens, temporarily confined in the Salinas Rodeo Grounds during World War II from April to July 1942. They were detained withou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AZ9_training-to-defend-america_Chambers-CA.html
From World War II until Fort Ord's closure in 1994, there dunes echoed with the sound of small arms fire. Rifle and machine gun ranges here gave thousands of U.S. Army Infantrymen the marksmanship skills needed to serve their nation in times of bo…
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