San Diego County Genealogy Trails Post Cards From The Past

Mexican Caretta, 200 years old, at Ramon's Marriage Place San Diego California Submitted by Shauna Williams

San Diego Mission, Founded 1769, California Mission "De Alcala" San Diego, San Diego, Cal., 1769. Is located in the Mission Valley six miles northeast of the City of San Diego. This was the first mission founded in the state of California. Next to the now ruined mission structures, a new brick building has been erected for the training of Indian children. Submitted by Shauna Williams

Asistencia de San Antonia de Pala, California  Asistencia de San Antonio de Pala, San Diego County, is about twenty miles from San Luis Rey, to which it was attached. Its bell tower is the only distinguishing feature of the old establishment distant from the beaten roads of travel, and is the home of the remnants of the thousands of Indians who inhabited the surrounding country and reverence even yet the memories of the good Fathers who labored for their welfare. Submitted by Shauna Williams.

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