Tinsmith old town san diego ca

While the Mission moved several miles further inland, the Presidio remained in its original location as the town of San Diego expanded around the base of the bluff. The Mexican government designated San Diego as a pueblo, or chartered town, in It lost this designation four years later when the population declined. Because the settlement was not located in close proximity to navigable water, supplies for the town brought ashore at Point Loma had to be trekked overland along the La Playa Trail.

The town plaza is the location where a U. Navy lieutenant and a U. Marine lieutenant first raised an American flag over California in The small community, primarily situated in the Old Town area, became the seat of San Diego County when California was admitted into the Union in A decade later, newcomer Alonzo Horton promoted the development of the present downtown San Diego.

In , the city and county moved their records to a new courthouse. The new district eclipsed Old Town as the focal point of the city. Old Town was connected to the new downtown area by streetcars in the early s.

Many of the attractions are free. On evenings and weekends, take advantage of free parking behind the CalTrans building on the northwest side of Taylor Street. Make your first stop at the Visitor Center in the Robinson-Rose House, erected in , demolished around and rebuilt in It was once the home of self-taught attorney James Robinson and his wife Sarah, a mysterious couple with a scandalous — for the era — past.

Pick up maps and brochures, find the camel in the diorama, and sign up for a guided walking tour of the park. Across the plaza is La Casa de Estudillo, a grand adobe home that served as the social and political center of fledgling San Diego. The house and courtyard functioned as a school, chapel and place of refuge for women and children during the U. Around , she converted it into a restaurant to capitalize on the rush of gold prospectors, immigrants and other settlers.

The one-room Mason Street School, built in and restored in , had an average enrollment of 42 students, though as many as a third could be absent on any given day due to the demands of ranching life. According to the California Department of Parks and Recreation, hot issues were funding, curriculum, philosophy, tolerance and bilingual education.

Other highlights of the park include La Casa de Bandini, which later became the Cosmopolitan Hotel, a blacksmith and woodworking shop, the first offices of the San Diego Union newspaper, and the first courthouse. On the terrace, an exhibit on the San Diego River explores the ecology and human impact over time. Climb the tower to get a spectacular view of Mission Valley, and compare historic photographs with the energetic city at your feet. San Diego is packed with great things to see and do including these top theme parks and attractions.

After an impressive and very appropriate prayer by the Chaplain, the Philharmonic Society, under the leadership of Professor E. The Rev. Jonathan L. Mann was introduced and read the Declaration of Independence in a manner that we have never heard excelled.

The Poet of the Day, Philip Morse, 18 was then introduced and read the following fine verse:. Grant 20 taking the solo part. This was magnificently rendered and enthusiastically cheered. The next thing on the programme was a sketch of our Local History by Douglas Gunn. But as the exercises were of considerable length, and no condensation of the matter could well be made, the Historian declined to occupy the time of the audience with dates and details of history that should rather be given to the public in print, orally.

A quartette of soldiers from Col. The President then introduced the Orator of the Day, E. Hendrick, Esq. President, ladies and gentlemen: Let us rejoice that we have lived to see this great day.

Let us rejoice that we are permitted to meet here, under such favorable auspices, and celebrate the Centennial Anniversary of American Independence; that we are able to cast our eyes backward over the vista of a hundred years, and see the new-born nation springing into existence, like Minerva from the brain of Jupiter, full-armed, and in the full vigor of eternal youth; to see her decking herself in the strong panoply of a sacred cause and an immortal principle, and taking her stand, like an athlete, among the nations of the earth, and saying to the terrified monarchies of the Old Worlds —.

Here I stand, I am the Beginning of your End:. The President announced that in response to a very generally expressed request, Capt.

Gunn removed his hat and stepping forward to the excavation, said:. We plant this memorial tree and now dedicate it to Liberty. May it stand a hundred years. Before that time, our places as citizens, one after another, will be occupied by others.

But a nation is a corporation, and corporations do not die when individual members simply give place to successors. Let us hope that each citizen of today will have a successor loyal and true, and that the nation will live and prosper through another century. Fully believing this will be so, I now declare this meeting adjourned till the Fourth of July, , to assemble then for the celebration of the second centennial anniversary of American Independence.

Of the grand ball in the evening we have brief space to speak. The great Pavilion Hall was brilliantly illuminated and the stage was a blaze of splendor. The music by Kerens and Burnes was exquisite. There was an immense throng of ladies and gentlemen and the scene was one of the most brilliant ever witnessed in our city.

The dance went merrily on through the night until near daybreak. We cannot give, as we should like to do, a detailed account of the various decorations of buildings and residences, some of which were remarkably tasteful: but, it is simple justice to speak of the efforts of the Signal Service Corps to contribute to the success of the celebration.

Wells and Mr. Thompson, Manager for the Western Union Telegraph Company, joined in decorating the Telegraph building, and the carriage and horses which took part in the procession. In the first, which consisted of Signal Service flags intermingled with U.

Dusouchet and Mrs. Patton, assisted by the Misses Bradt. In the afternoon a large party of ladies and gentlemen assembled at the residence of Mr. Fairchild, Cashier of the Commercial Bank, where they were elegantly entertained by Mr. They deserve the hearty thanks of the community for their indefatigable labors. To Colonel Bernard, who aided so largely in the success of the occasion, the cordial acknowledgements of the community are rendered. And to all the citizens who aided in the arrangements, and contributed to the carrying out of the programme we offer hearty congratulations upon the happy result.

In the evening there was a dance at the house of Mrs. Thomas Whaley. Elizabeth C. Horton San Diego: Pioneer Printers, , pp.

William Augustus Begole was born in New York state. He took the overland route to California in , but not much is known of him until when he is found at Red Dog, Nevada County, California.

At that place he became one of the charter members and first S. Carmel Lodge No. He was a tinsmith later referred to as hardware and plumbing by profession, both in northern California and later in San Diego, where he arrived sometime in early Begole was very active in masonic affairs in San Diego as well. Leon O. Whitsell et al. San Francisco: Grand Lodge, F. Orion M. Oliver W. Gates was the second pastor of the Baptist church in San Diego, arriving in and remaining until It is noted that he was from New England, and was quite deaf.

Gates and his wife bought a parcel of land upon which they erected a seminary for girls, which was operated by Mrs. William E. Smythe, History of San Diego— , 2 vols. San Diego: The History Co. Waldo F. Jonathon L. Mann served as pastor of the Methodist church in San Diego during , and is remembered particularly for having performed on April 24 of this auspicious year a wedding ceremony by telegraph, between San Diego and Camp Grant, Arizona.

It was said to be only the second such ceremony to have occurred. James Robertson was serving at the time as pastor of the Presbyterian church of San Diego. He was one of four ministers supplying this church from to , and about whom nothing of distinction is written. Smythe, San Diego , Bernard, commanding Co. G, 1st U.