Historic Rambles in San Diego County - Softcover
Fifteen exciting one-day motor car trips to San Diego's most interesting historic sites. Easy-driving routes with notes on time, mileage, food and comfort stops. Visit old adobes, one-rom schools, costly mansions, pioneer graveyards, missions, an 1894 Community Hall, rustic bachelor's shanty, gold mines, hot springs, Spanish exploration routes and Mexican-American battle sites. For adventure discover Top Gun Street, Goesno Place, Dusty Road, Muffin Court and 200 more oddly-named public streets in San Diego County.
This is a reader-friendly book for individual wandering, families seeking day-long diversions and teachers guiding students to regional history. EAch route and its sites are clearly described and map reading is not necessary. Parking, food and comfort stops are listed, with mileage and average tour times.
Visit the a complete 1894 Colony Olivenhain farm, our best historic adobes, the Ostrich Creek Bridge, Mule Hill, where besieged American soldiers ate their pack mules, a Spanish burial site in downtown San Diego, our oldest operating winery, an 1813-1816 dam and flume that irrigated mission crops, the Belmont Roller Coaster, Jacumba "massacre" gravestone, Butterfield mail stations, where a glider flew 20 years before the Wright brothers, and nostalgic one-room schoolhouses.
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- PublisherCoda Pubns
- ISBN 10 0910390363
- ISBN 13 9780910390361
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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