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Learn about the history, culture and attractions of Little Italy, a neighborhood in downtown San Diego that was once a tuna fishing hub. Find out about the weekly farmers market, the art festivals, the Italian Cultural Center and more.
California Tower and Building are historic structures in Balboa Park, San Diego, built for the 1915–16 Panama-California Exposition. They have a Spanish-Colonial Revival style, a blue-and-gold dome, and a carillon in the tower.
Learn about the history and features of the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Restaurant, a national historic landmark in Old Town San Diego. Built in 1829 by Juan Bandini, it was a stagecoach stop, a tourist motel, and a haunted site.
Learn about the history, format, and status of Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes, a US-based chain of buffet-style restaurants. Find out how the COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of all locations in 2020 and the reopening of one in 2024.
Learn about the history and attractions of Cabrillo National Monument, a park in San Diego, California, that commemorates the first European landing on the West Coast of the US in 1542. See the statue of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, the Old Point Loma Lighthouse, the military batteries, and the wildlife of the area.
Learn about the history and attractions of Old Town San Diego, the first European settlement on the West Coast of the present-day United States. Explore the historic buildings, museums, shops and restaurants in this state-protected park.
Seven years later in 1875, the store became the site of one of the deadliest Old West shootouts in California, with eight killed as the gang of bandits failed to raid the store. [4] [5] Morena Dam was constructed between 1896 and 1912 to provide water to the San Diego area. Campo was a station on the San Diego and Arizona Railway, completed in ...
The area is entirely flat. It consists mostly of “fill” land built up over formerly marshy areas and river sediment deposits. Nothing remains of the former wetlands except Famosa Slough State Marine Conservation Area (a city-owned nature preserve which is technically located in Point Loma but is considered part of Midway by many people) and the San Diego River bed itself.