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  2. Architecture of the California missions - Wikipedia

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    Five basic materials were used in constructing the permanent mission structures: adobe, timber, stone, brick, and tile. [8] Adobes (mud bricks) were made from a combination of earth and water, with chaff, straw, or manure added to bind the mixture together.

  3. San Dieguito complex - Wikipedia

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    The complex was first identified by Malcolm J. Rogers in 1919 at site SDI-W-240 in Escondido in San Diego County, California. [1] He assigned the Paleo-Indian designation of 'Scraper Makers' to the prehistoric producers of the complex, based on the common occurrence of unifacially flaked lithic (stone) tools at their sites.

  4. La Jolla complex - Wikipedia

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    Characteristics of the La Jolla complex include hand stones and basin or slab milling stones (manos and metates), rough percussion-flaked stone edge tools, flexed burials, and extensive exploitation of shellfish, particularly venus clam (Chione spp.), scallop (Argopecten aequisulcatus), mussel (Mytilus californianus), and oyster (Ostrea lurida).

  5. List of San Diego Historic Landmarks - Wikipedia

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    SDHL # [1] Landmark name [2] Image Address [2] Designation Date [2] Description [3]; 1: El Prado Area: Balboa Park: 9/7/1967 Long, wide promenade running through the center of Balboa Park, lined with Spanish Revival buildings including the Museum of Us, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Natural History Museum, the Fleet Science Center, and the Timken Museum of Art

  6. List of bridges documented by the Historic American ...

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    Stone arch: 1863 1999 Southern Pacific Railroad: Runoff channel South San Francisco: San Mateo: CA-264: Black Canyon Road Bridge Bypassed Reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch: 1913 1997 Black Canyon Road Santa Ysabel Creek Ramona: San Diego

  7. Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant - Wikipedia

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    In 1943, the 32nd Street treatment plant was opened, and in 1948, the capacity of this plant was increased to 40 million gallons per day (MGD). A few years later, San Diego Bay was quarantined due to illness and in 1959 the city council approved the metro-sewage system and the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant.

  8. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    What addicts face is a revolving door, an ongoing cycle of waiting for treatment, getting treatment, dropping out, relapsing and then waiting and returning for more. Like so many others, Tabatha Roland, the 24-year-old addict from Burlington, wanted to get sober but felt she had hit a wall with treatment.

  9. Lewis Brick Block - Wikipedia

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    The Lewis Brick Block, also known as the Stingaree Hotel, is an historic structure located at 538 5th Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, in the U.S. state of California. It was built in 1885. The Victorian Commercial two-story rectangular building is constructed of brick with a flat roof.