FIRST -- Sighting of San Diego - San Diego, CA
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bluesnote
N 32° 42.887 W 117° 09.732
11S E 484799 N 3619680
A historical marker in Horton Plaza.
Waymark Code: WM15R3K
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/13/2022
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The plaque says, "San Diego bay is a natural harbor. First sighted in 1542 by the Spanish explore Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo, the bay was originally named San Miguel. Next visited in 1602, Sebastian Viscaino renamed the bay after a canonized priest, San Diego, from Alicia, Spain. Seldom visited for the next 150 years, Father Junipero Serra came overland from Mexico a founded the first California missions in San Diego (Old Town) in 1769. The mission are and officially became an American town in 1846.
The bay was too shallow for ship to come close in, so passengers were taken to shore by rowboat to the water's edge and then carried to dry land on the backs of sailors or Insane. Then they were taken by wagon to town...a few miles north to Old Town. In 1867, Alonzo E. Horton first came to San Diego and was immediately convinced that "The town should be down by the wharf."
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