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Gómez-Quiñones, Juan. "Plan de San Diego Reviewed," Aztlan, (1970) 1#1 pp 124–132. Hager, William M. "The plan of San Diego unrest on the Texas border in 1915." Arizona and the West 5.4 (1963): 327-336. online; Harris III, Charles H., and Louis R. Sadler. "The Plan of San Diego and the Mexican–United States War Crisis of 1916: A ...
The San Diego Zoo opened the San Diego Zoo Safari Park as the San Diego Wild Animal Park in 1972. Historical buildings reflecting the city's Spanish and Mexican heritage, such as Old Town San Diego State Historic Park and Mission San Diego de Alcalá were designated as historical landmarks by local and federal agencies in the 1970s.
Temple Beth Israel is San Diego's first synagogue. It is located in Heritage Park in San Diego's Old Town area. The first services held here were on September 25, 1889. 83: San Diego Steam Laundry: 1157 Columbia 6/1/1973 84: Green Dragon Colony Site: 1258–1274 Prospect St, La Jolla 7/6/1973
Location of San Diego County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Diego County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Diego County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
The camp was established by the Army in 1917 on 12,721 acres (51.48 km 2) of land on a mesa north of San Diego. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The area included the 2,130-acre (8.6 km 2 ) Miramar Ranch, which had originally been established by newspaperman E. W. Scripps and later sold to the Jessop family. [ 3 ]
A site was chosen in 1851 near the summit of Point Loma. The contract was given to the Washington, D.C. company Gibbon and Kelley. The local supervisor was William J. Timanus. Construction was begun in April 1854, when a shipment of materials arrived from San Francisco. The lantern and lens had to be ordered from Paris and arrived in August 1855.
The area near the national monument entrance was used for gliding activities in 1929–1935. Several soaring endurance records were established here by William Hawley Bowlus and others including the first 1-hour flight in a sailplane, and a 15-hour flight in 1930 which surpassed the world record for soaring endurance.
San Diego transit information about public transportation and commuting is available on the Web and by dialing "511" from any phone in the area. [240] San Diego International Airport. The city has two major commercial airports within or near its city limits. San Diego International Airport (SAN) is the busiest single-runway airport in the ...