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Senior Army / Navy Civil Affairs Staging Area officers at the Presidio of Monterey in the Spring of 1945. Presidio of Monterey in 2005. The Presidio of Monterey (POM), located in Monterey, California, is an active US Army installation with historic ties to the Spanish colonial era.
Steinbeck's Spirit of Monterey Wax Museum: Monterey: Monterey: Monterey Bay: Wax: Monterey historic figures [2] Strathearn Historical Park and Museum: Simi Valley: Ventura: Central Coast: Open air: Includes the Simi Adobe-Strathearn House, children's playhouse, 1902 Catholic church, library, barber shop, pitting shed and barns with farm tools ...
Museum entry. The first Maritime Museum began in 1971 as the Allen Knight Maritime Museum. It was located in the basement of the Monterey Museum of Art, and principally housed the collection of Allen Knight, who briefly worked as a sailor in 1916, and collected artifacts and memorabilia related to maritime activities throughout his life. [3]
Old Monterey Jail – Monterey city jail, used from 1854 to 1956. Located adjacent to Colton Hall. Point Pinos Lighthouse – lighthouse on the tip of the Monterey Peninsula in Pacific Grove that is the oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the West Coast of the United States. Houses a museum and other exhibits.
Monterey became the capital of the Province of Californias in 1777 and the chapel was renamed the Royal Presidio Chapel. The original 1770-71 church along with other buildings in the presido were destroyed by fire caused by a salute gun in 1789 and was replaced by the present sandstone structure built between 1791 and 1795. [ 6 ]
Colton Hall is a government building and museum in Monterey, California, United States. It was built in 1847–49 by Walter Colton, who arrived in Monterey as the chaplain on Commodore Robert F. Stockton's vessel. He remained and was named as Monterey's first alcalde (mayor) in the American Period. Colton Hall originally contained rooms ...
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Location of Monterey County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Monterey County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Monterey County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...