BGuthrie Photos: CA -- San Diego -- Old Town area

CA -- San Diego -- Old Town area:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. OTOWN_070724_030.JPG: Father Antonio Ubach: Last of the Padres: 1835-1907: Antonio Dominic Ubach, passionate advocate for California's Native Americans and defender of Indian rights, ran St. Anthony's Indian School on this site from 1886 to 1891. Father Ubach created programs to help hundreds of Indian children adapt to an American society. He lobbied government to protect the Indians and their lands and was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to lead official missions of State. Father Ubach was immortalized in Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona as the fictional character Father Gaspara. The landmark book focused national attention on the plight of the Native Americans in California. An accomplished scholar, poet and swordsman, he left Spain for America in 155 to devote his life to religious duty for over a half century. Considered to be the last of the Padres, he was beloved and respected by all for his tireless charitable work. His funeral in 1907 was attended by thousands of San Diego citizens, settlers and Indians whose lived he touched. True to his character, his last words were "have charity."
2. OTOWN_070724_033.JPG: Don Antonio Aguirre. San Diego Merchant and Ranchero. 1799-1860. Don Jose Antonio Aguirre built his adobe mansion on this site on or just prior to 1853. Because the Cada de Aguirre was one of the first houses in Old Town, the Aguirres -- Antonio, his wife Rosario and their many children -- are considered to be one of San Diego's founding families. Don Antonio was a wealthy merchant and rancher who contributed greatly to the development of San Diego. Locally, he owned several ships and warehouses and imported goods from Peru and China in trade for cowhides and tallow. Later, Aguirre became one of the largest landowners in California when he developed a successful ranching enterprise. Born in Spain, he also held Mexican and American citizenship in his lifetime. In 1850, he partnered with William Heath Davis to develop New Town San Diego. Aguirre was known for his charity and funded many projects including the construction of the Old Adobe Chapel on Conde Street, the church where he is buried.
3. OTOWN_070724_038.JPG: Chuck Jones gallery in San Diego
4. OTOWN_070724_039.JPG: Whaley House
5. OTOWN_070724_044.JPG: Whaley House: Built by Thomas Whaley in 1856-57, this is the oldest brick structure in southern California. In addition to being the home of the Whaley family, it served variously as granary, store, court house, and school and as the town's first theater. Whaley's home was the cultural center of San Diego as well as its most luxurious residence. State Registered Landmark No. 65 Marker placed by San Diego County Board of Supervisors and the Historical Markers Committee, erected 1959.
6. OTOWN_070724_046.JPG: Old Adobe Chapel
7. OTOWN_070724_048.JPG: Adobe Chapel of the Immaculate Conception: Originally built as the home of San Diego's John Brown in 1850, the house was converted to a church by Don Jose Aguirre in 1858. Father Antonio D. Ubach, formerly a missionary among the Indians, was parish priest here from 1866 to 1907. It is said that he was the model for "Father Gaspara" in Helen Hunt Jackson's "Romona". In 1937, the WPA rebuilt the adobe chapel close to its original site. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 49 Originally registered December 6, 1932. Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the city of San Diego, San Diego County Historical Days Ass'n, and Squibob Chapter E Clampus Vitus, September 24, 1988.
8. OTOWN_070724_113.JPG: Derby-Pendleton House
Description of Subject Matter: El Campo Santo Cemetery:

Used between 1850 and 1880. Here lie many of the most famous early San Diegans. Now smaller than its original size, some graves lie beneath San Diego Avenue and Linwood Street.

Derby-Pendleton House:

This house was shipped around the Horn as a prefab home in 1850. It was originally built in New Town and moved to Old Town around 1851. In 1855 Captain George A. Pendleton, the first county clerk and recorder acquired it for his office. The house was moved in 1962 from the end of Harney Street to its current site at the Whaley House Complex.

Old Adobe Chapel:

The Old Adobe Chapel was reconstructed in the 1930's, after the original structure was razed. The Adobe Chapel was the first parochial church in the first parish of California after the secularization of the missions in 1832. The Old Adobe Chapel was the setting for the fictional wedding of Ramona in Jackson's novel.

Plaque on the property:
Old Adobe Chapel:
Built in 1850 as a private residence.
Dedicated a parish church November 21, 1858
by Father John Moliner.
In 1866, Father Antonio Ubach, the parish priest, was "Father Gaspara,"
of Helen Hunt Jackson's famous novel,
"Ramona".

Whaley House:

According to the Travel Channel’s America’s Most Haunted, the Whaley House is the number one most haunted house in the United States. The alleged hauntings of the Whaley House have been reported on numerous other television programs and been written up in countless publications and books since the house first opened as a museum in 1960. Although we cannot state positively that the Whaley House is really haunted, the voluminous documentation of paranormal occurrences at the site makes a compelling case. But, if there are ghosts at the Whaley House, who are they and why are they here?
Wikipedia Description: Old Town, San Diego
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Old Town is a neighborhood of San Diego, California. It contains 230 acres (93 ha) and is bounded by Interstate 8 on the north, Interstate 5 on the west, Mission Hills on the east and Bankers Hill on the south. It is the oldest settled area in San Diego and is the site of the first European settlement in present-day California. It contains Old Town San Diego State Historic Park and Presidio Park, both of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

History

The San Diego Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcal� were founded in 1769 by Gaspar de Portol� and Jun�pero Serra on a bluff at the western end of the San Diego River valley. The Presidio and Mission constituted the first Spanish settlement in Alta California, the present day state of California. After five years the Mission moved to a location several miles upriver, while the Presidio on its hill remained the primary settlement. In the 1820s the town of San Diego grew up at the base of the bluff, at the site commemorated by Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, while the Presidio fell into disrepair.

In 1834 the Mexican government granted San Diego the status of a pueblo, or chartered town. However, the population of the town declined so much that in 1838 its pueblo status was revoked. One problem was the town's location far from navigable water. All imports and exports had to be brought ashore in Point Loma and carried several miles over the La Playa Trail to the town.

When California was admitted to the United States in 1850, San Diego (still largely limited to the Old Town area) was made the county seat of San Diego County, even though the town's population was only 650.

The Old Town area remained the heart of the city of San Diego until the 1860s, when a newcomer to San Diego named Alonzo Horton began to promote development at the site of present-day Downtown San Diego. Residents and businesses quickly abandoned "Old Town" for Horton's "New Town" because of New Town's proximity to shipping. In 1871, government records were moved from Old Town to a new county courthouse in New Town, and Downtown permanently eclipsed Old Town as the focal point of San Diego.
Class 1 Streetcar homes in the Old Town neighborhood of San Diego, California.

In the 1910s, Old Town became one of the many San Diego neighborhoods connected by the Class 1 streetcars and an extensive San Diego public transit system that was spurred by the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 and built by John D. Spreckels. These streetcars became a fixture of this neighborhood until their retirement in 1939.[unreliable source?]
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