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Waltus L. Watkins established the 80-acre livestock farm he called Bethany Plantation in 1839. [8] Watkins Mill was built in 1859-1860. Watkins built housing for the mill workers nearby, creating one of the first planned communities in North America. The community was effectively self-sufficient, the mill producing yarn and wool cloth.
SDHL # [1] Landmark name [2] Image Address [2] Designation Date [2] Description [3]; 16: Whaling Station Site: Ballast Point Peninsula 11/6/1970 Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s, halfway out on the inner beach of Ballast Point
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.
The Hotel del Coronado, also known as The Del and Hotel Del, is a historic beachfront hotel in Coronado, California, just across San Diego Bay from San Diego.A rare surviving example of an American architectural genre—the wooden Victorian beach resort—it was designated a California Historical Landmark in 1970 [4] and a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
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
looking down the cliffs overlooking Pacific Beach north of Crystal Pier. The beach stretches for miles from the Mission Bay jetty to the cliffs of La Jolla.The boardwalk, officially called Ocean Front Walk/Ocean Boulevard, is a pedestrian walkway that runs approximately 3.2 miles along the beach from the end of Law St. in the north down into Mission Beach, ending at the mouth of Mission Bay in ...
National City was incorporated in 1887, Chula Vista in 1911, and Imperial Beach in 1956. South San Diego, including the communities of San Ysidro, Nestor, Palm City, and Otay Mesa, was annexed by the City of San Diego in 1957. The term "South Bay" has referred to the region since at least the early 20th century, with one reference dating from 1918.
The C Street Inn, formerly known as the Hotel Polhemus and Cecil Hotel, is an affordable housing complex in downtown San Diego's Core district that was vacated in 2022 due to egregious conditions. It was built in 1912 and opened in 1913 with 100 rooms.