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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/71spring/river.htm
...THE ROLE OF THE SAN DIEGO RIVER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MISSION VALLEY By Nan Taylor Papageorge ...
...Their father, who had spent some of his childhood in San Diego, had told them what he remembered of the floods of the San Diego River in Mission Valley....
More Pourade: City of the Dream
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/dream/dreamchapter8.htm
...In the same year it became known that the May Department Stores Company, with headquarters in Los Angeles, would, if zoning changes were approved, build a huge shopping complex in Mission Valley....
...The decision on a site in Mission Valley came out of a research project predicting a northward growth for metropolitan San Diego which would place the center in the heart of the future....
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2002-1/holle.htm
...Van Vleck and Fisher designed the cable cars, 12 double-truck cars that deposited riders at Park and Adams and the Bluffs, a popular recreation area overlooking Mission Valley that was later called Mission Cliff Gardens....
...In Mission Valley, the idea of building a rail line raised eyebrows....
More Pourade: City of the Dream
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/dream/dreamchapter10.htm
...These buildings were farther removed from downtown than Mission Valley was from central San Diego. ...
...George Scott's College Grove had opened first, in July of 1960, followed by the May Company's Mission Valley Center in February of 1961 and Marston's Grossmont Center in the Fall of the same year. ...
More Photo Collection, San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/photocollect/clist2.htm
...Baja California, Campo, Chula Vista, Coronado (Hotel Del Coronado, tent city), Del Mar, Descanso, El Cajon, Escondido, Fallbrook, Imperial Beach, Jamul, Julian, Laguna Mountains, La Jolla, Lakeside, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, Mission Valley, National City, Ocean Beach, Oceanside, Old Town, Otay, Pine Hills, Point Loma, Ramona, San Pasqual Valley, Santee, and San Ysabel....
...Bay, Mission Gorge, Mission Village, Morena, Murphy Canyon, North Park, Oceanside, Old Town, Otay Lake, Pacific Beach, Pala, Paradise Hills, Pine Valley, Point Loma, Pomerado Road area, Poway, Ramona, Ridgeview Acres, Rose Canyon, San Bernardino, San Carlos, San Clemente, San Marcos, Shelter Island, Silver Strand, Sorrento Valley, Spring Valley, San Diego State University area, Suncrest, Sweetwater, Torrey Pines, and Vista. ...
More Journal Index 1955-1974
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/index/1955-1974.htm
...Maxwell, Ruth, 18:1:23 May Company, (Mission Valley), 17:2:23 ...
...Mission Valley: in 1874, photograph(s), 17:2:16; in 1961, photograph(s), 17:2:23; mentioned, 2:4:53; 13:4:15,33,54; 15:3:4; 17:2:14-27 ...
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2002-4/1889.htm
...Manasse & Schiller offer 40 acres in Pueblo Lot 1120, known as the Crosthwaite ranch in Mission Valley, for the sum of $1700 in warrants upon the Contingent fund....
...Commercial Bank of San Diego offered 120 acres in Mission Valley and known as the "Jose Maria Estudillo place," for the sum of $1500 in warrants on the Contingent fund....
More San Diego History Timeline
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/timeline/timeline3.htm
...1957 Minor League Padres begin playing at Westgate Park in Mission Valley....
...1958 Interstate Highway 8 opens in February, following ancient Indian trails through Mission Valley. ...
More Photo Collection, San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/photocollect/palist.htm
...This album includes images of the Hotel Del Coronado, the S.D. Normal School, the USS Charleston, torpedo boats, downtown street scenes, USS Washington, double deck electric car, La Jolla caves, Mission Valley, fishing on Spreckel's Wharf, San Diego Mission, other ships of the Great White Fleet and other images. ...
...Images include churches, Santa Fe Depot, Mission Valley, Lane Field, Balboa Park, library, San Diego Zoo animals, Mt. Helix, La Jolla, Sunset Cliffs, KFSD broadcasting station, tidal pools in La Jolla, La Jolla Art Center, entrance to cave in La Jolla, San Diego Civic Center, businesses in La Mesa, Balboa Stadium football game, and many other images....
More Smythe: History of San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/smythe/1-4.htm
...The San Diego Mission laid under tribute something like forty square miles, with its religious and industrial headquarters in Mission Valley and its military base on Presidio Hill....
...There were many other varieties of trees of the early planting, such as peaches and pears, but the olive outlives all its contemporaries, and those ancient trees in Mission Valley should remain to receive the homage of generations unborn. ...
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95summer/chapter19.htm
...Mission Valley: Smokestacks vs Geraniums ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For several decades Mission Valley has been the subject of controversy as city planners, local citizens and developers have bitterly contested the future direction of this prize piece of San Diego real estate....
...After World War II, the city's outward expansion began to encroach on Mission Valley, causing planners to debate the kind of development that should take place. ...
More Pourade: City of the Dream
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/dream/dreamchapter4.htm
...A seven-mile state highway through Cabrillo canyon was completed and opened to traffic in 1948, providing a crosstown artery from the City's center to Mission Valley and with access to Linda Vista, by way of Highway 395. To allay the fears of those who had opposed diverting traffic through the quiet of Balboa Park, and that the beauty of the parkway would be sacrificed...
...In the same year the final link of a twelve-mile east-west freeway through Mission Valley was dedicated on August 8. The City's first modern interchange was at Pacific Highway and Mission Valley, where traffic could be exchanged between the main route into San Diego and the new freeway through the valley....
More San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/77spring/heath.htm
...Detail from "San Diego's Mission Valley" painting by Frank L. Heath ...
...Frank L. Heath, a renowned California artist of his time whose works won numerous awards, was twenty-nine years old in 1886 when he painted the subtly colored view of Mission Valley reproduced in part on the front cover....
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/70winter/hatfield.htm
...The San Diego River was a mile-wide torrent covering Mission Valley from the Kearny Mesa to the mesa of the city and sending back-waters between the jutting fingers of both....
...There was snow in the mountains and a light sprinkle in the city near the year's end, and water flowed in the San Diego River through Mission Valley-a rare sight since upstream diversion had become so extensive. ...
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/62april/museum.htm
...There was constant friction between the Indians and the soldiers, and so with an eye to eliminating this trouble, and because of the greater accessibility of farm land, a new, permanent mission was built in 1774. This is located about six miles up Mission Valley, to the north of U. S. Highway 80. From a vantage point on the East porch of the Museum,...
...visitors can view the Mission up the valley. ...
More Photo Collection, San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/photocollect/palist2.htm
...battleships in harbor, view of Mission Valley, Anschuetz' Mission Inn, and many other images....
...San Diego images include the harbor, Alpine Town Hall, La Jolla caves and cove, houses in Fallbrook, Live Oak Farm in Fallbrook, La Mesa, several adobes or ruins, ranches, Golden Lotus Temple in Encinitas, Pine Valley cabins, highway between Del Mar and Torrey Pines, 'Indian Bath Tub,' Borrego State Park waterfall, Old Town, Vallecito Stage Station, Battle of San Pasqual monument, Starvation Peak, Mission...
More Journal Index 1975-1989
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/index/1975-1989.htm
...Mission in the Valley of the Bears:...
...Mission in the Valley: A Documentary History of San Fernando, Rey de Espana, compiled and edited by Msgr. Francis J. Weber, reviewed, 22:2:62-63 ...
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/71spring/index.htm
...Native of Arica: Requiem for a Don By Katherine L. Wagner The Role of the San Diego River in the Development of Mission Valley By Nan Taylor Papageorge Racetrack to Highway:...
...On the Cover: The Padre Dam, a marvel of the mission era, played an important role in San Diego's Mission Valley development....
More Pourade: Time of the Bells
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/time/timechapter9.htm
...The mission lands, which eventually embraced most of the fertile coastal and upland valleys between San Diego and Sonoma, were not the property of the individual missionaries or the mission orders, or even of the church itself....
...The site chosen for the new mis-sion was on the north side of San Luis Rey River Valley which Fr. Juan Crespi had named Canada de San Juan Capistrano when the Portola Expedition to Monterey crossed it in 1769. Crespi had described it as an ideal location for a mission....
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/71spring/riverimages.htm
...THE ROLE OF THE SAN DIEGO RIVER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MISSION VALLEY ...
...Page 16. Mission Valley looking east from Presidio Hill, 1874 ...
More Pourade: City of the Dream
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/dream/dreamchapter5.htm
...Sites in Balboa Park and Mission Valley were considered too remote....
...All factors pointed to San Diego, and after further study, to Mission Valley....
More [PDF] The Journal of San Diego History Vol 52: Nos 1 & 2
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/v52-1/pdf/2006-1_normal.pdf
...Today, Normal Heights is bounded by El Cajon Boulevard to the south, Mission Valley to the north, Interstate 805 to the west, and Interstate 15 (affectionately known to locals as "the Moat") to the east.3 The name "Normal Heights" was adopted from the State Normal School built in University Heights in 1899. By the end of the 1920s, Normal Heights was a largely working-class...
...Early Development In 1887, at the height of San Diego's land boom, numerous investment companies incorporated and proceeded to buy and sell lots and to deliver water to property on the mesa above Mission Valley....
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84winter/kerren.htm
...Seven city lots were assessed to be worth $650 and an eighty acre half lot located in Mission Valley was appraised at $150. Listed at the bottom of the document were found the names of well known San Diegans and the amount of money each owed Richard Kerren....
...On October 7, 1856, less than a month before his death, Sergeant Kerren purchased one-half of lot 2 39 , an eighty acre parcel, in Mission Valley, from George P. Tebbetts of San Luis Rey 40 for $300. 41 In 1851 the Common Council, the governing body of the city of San Diego, 42 had elected Tebbetts president, the equivalent of mayor....
More Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1958.htm
..."The California Story" to be restaged in Mission Valley....
...Planning Board okays subdivision plan in Mission Valley....
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/76winter/guide.htm
...Establishment of a military camp on Presidio Hill; exploration of Mission Valley. ...
...November 5, 1775 - October, 1776 Construction resumed on the presidio chapel at the entrance to Mission Valley....
More Rising Tide by Richard Pourade
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/rising/risingchapter2.htm
...Among other recommendations, Nolen urged that further encroachments on Balboa Park be prevented and that there be a system of parks based on the area's strong natural features, such as its bays, Point Loma, the San Diego River and Mission Valley, Mount Soledad, Chollas Valley and Torrey Pines....
...Other principal recommendations were the improving of the highway entrance to San Diego; extension of Sixth Street from University Avenue across Mission Valley to Camp Kearny Highway; a new thoroughfare across Dutch Flats to connect with Mission Beach Boulevard; an outer circuit parkway, out by way of Mission Valley, across East San Diego and back by way of Chollas Valley; a Mission Bay parkway;...
Finding Aids
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/findaid/ac117.htm
...Locations include: Alpine, Buckman Springs, Cardiff by the Sea, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, El Cajon, Encinitas, Escondido, Fallbrook, Grossmont, Imperial Valley, Julian, La Jolla, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, National City, Santee, San Diego, and its neighborhoods, including Burlingame, North Park, Mission Beach, Mission Hills, Mission Valley, Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach, Point Loma, and Sunset Cliffs....
...91:18564/1557-1562 Mission Valley (San Diego, Calif.) ...
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/photocollect/printrefc.htm
...Mission Hills Mission Valley National City ...
...Mission Valley, Morena, National City, Oceanside, Ocean Beach, Old Town, Pacific Beach, Pala, Palomar, Paradise Valley ...
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/88spring/leslie.htm
...They purchased nearly three acres on the south rim of Mission Valley, west of Mission Cliff Gardens....
...After passing through the tunnel, one was confronted with a spectacular view up Mission Valley to the east....
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2000-1/elcortez.htm
...Business development beyond downtown's central district expanded the power base north to Mission Valley and Kearny Mesa, spurring the need for suburban planning and improvements....
...The development of Mission Valley for shopping and Mission Bay for recreation created new attractions for San Diegans to enjoy....
More Pourade: Gold in the Sun
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/gold/goldchapter5.htm
...From Escondido the autos were to follow the familiar wagon road from Escondido over rolling hill country to Bernardo store, then along the stage road to Poway Pass, across the mesa to Murray Canyon and down into Mission Valley, and from there up what was called the hospital grade - which a half century later became part of the Cabrillo Freeway - to University...
...The stage route that had followed the mission trail from Rose Canyon through Sorrento Valley and back of Del Mar was at last abandoned. ...
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/77fall/gardens.htm
...From 1898 to 1942 Mission Cliff Gardens, under the ownership of the San Diego Electric Railway Company, occupied the cliffs overlooking beautiful Mission Valley. ...
...The grounds were situated on steep cliffs overlooking Mission Valley....
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/82summer/sisters.htm
...Later, when quarters became cramped in Old Town, Father Ubach decided to move St. Anthony's out to the old Mission San Diego de Alcal n Mission Valley, which had been abandoned for years....
...By 1908 there were so few children left at the old Mission that they were taken to St. Boniface Indian School, which had been established by the Sisters of St. Joseph at Banning in 1890. Mission San Diego, once more, was left to the elements in the lonely valley....
More Smythe: History of San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/smythe/4-4.htm
...In order to avoid this expense and improve the service, the company drove a tunnel through the hills, beginning at a point in Mission Val-ley below the new County Hospital and coming out on Univer-sity Avenue near George P. Hall's place....
...The city obtained its supply from the pumping plant in Mission Valley until August, 1906, when its contract with the Southern California Mountain Water Com-pany went into operation....
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/78spring/people.htm
...and Los Angeles. 29 Currently on display at the San Diego Historical Society's Serra Museum is a large canvas by Heath of Mission Valley from a north hill looking southwest towards Presidio Hill and Old Town as it appeared in 1888. 30 The point of view chosen is almost identical to a photograph of Mission Valley probably taken in 1887 by C. W. Judd,...
...37. Ibid., p. 3, photograph from the San Diego Historical Society Archives shows the Heath landscape of Mission Valley on display in a store window in a similar manner....
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2000-4/hillcrest.htm
...He actively pursued a professional city plan to promote structured and efficient housing throughout the city of San Diego. 3 In 1907, William Whitson, who founded Hillcrest through his Hillcrest Company, bought over 40 acres of land between First and Sixth Avenues, south of Mission Valley, and began to subdivide....
...sailors and students. With the establishment of the Mission Valley Shopping Center in the early 1960s, however, Hillcrest experienced a major economic downturn. 7 ...
More San Diego History Center
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/online_resources/crosthwaite.html
...The citizens of San Diego received the group hospitably, and the Hounds went into camp in Mission Valley....
...Once more, Crosthwaite refused. The Captain then threatened to take over the town and sent a man to Mission Valley to bring in the rest of the Hounds. ...
More San Diego History Timeline
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/timeline/index.htm
...Ipai or Northern Diegueno, from the San Dieguito River Valley to Mission Valley; and the Ipai or Kumeyaay from Mission Valley to Ensenada....
Rising Tide by Richard Pourade
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/rising/risingchapter3.htm
...It passes gently by the site of a little Spanish asistencia mission in Santa Ysabel Valley and then winds through several deep canyons and enters San Pasqual Valley....
...At the edge of the valley it penetrates the last of its hilly barriers, Mission Gorge....
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/85winter/reiffel.htm
...In El Cajon Valley In Mission Valley, 1932 In Old National City, 1937 In Palm Canyon, 1931 In San Felipe Valley, 1927 In the Cuyamaca Mountains, c. 1929 In the Hills, Connecticut In the Hills In the Mountains In the Mountains, Baja California, 1929 Indian Huts, Yuma Julian - Dead Tree, 1941 La Jolla Shore, 1934 Late Afternoon, Alpine Late Afternoon, El Cajon Valley,...
...1935 Late Afternoon Glow Late Afternoon, Santa Ysabel Ranch, 1931 Looking Toward the Desert, 1930 Lower California Man, Cow and Tree, 1931 Midsummer, 1920 Mill in Winter, c. 1928 Mission Valley, 1934 Misty Evening, Niagara River, c. 1908 Moonlight on the Niagara Moonlit Surf Morning, Grossmont Morning, Nogales, Arizona, 1928 Morning, Nogales, Mexico Mount Helix Mountain Barrier, 1931 Mountain Barrier, 1932 Mountain Patterns, 1928...
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95winter/sdsc.htm
...There it would meet the western section of the Bostonia Highway, which would be extended through the center of the Mission Palisades tract, from Adobe Falls to Sixth Avenue (today's Cabrillo Freeway) along the base of the southern slopes of Mission Valley. 17 ...
...Located near the intersection of College Way and Mission Valley Road (today's Montezuma Road), a gift parcel was given to the City in order to be developed under the guiding hand of Palos Verdes urban planner Charles H. Cheney....
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/62april/hilltop.htm
...In 1927, Hale J. Walker, John Nolen's assistant, and Kenneth Gardner, San Diego City Planner, sat on a stone near the present location of the University of San Diego, and, looking southward across Mission Valley, sketched a simple, domed building on the commanding promontory....
...Fort Stockton remains in a nearly natural state; the re-built wall at Mission Valley rim defines the original limits of the old Spanish settlement....
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/71fall/index.htm
...On the Cover: SERRA MUSEUM, LIBRARY AND TOWER GALLERY The imposing Serra Museum, Library and Tower Gallery, located on Presidio Hill and commanding an extraordinary pan- orama of San Diego Bay, Old Town, Point Loma, Mission Valley, Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean, is the home of the San Diego Historical Society....
Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2000-4/echoes.htm
...Land Field was home to the San Diego Padres until 1957 when the team moved to Westgate Park in Mission Valley, but it was during those 21 years at Lane Field that San Diego and the Padres first fell in love with each other....
...The first section of the book, the introduction, consists of a chronological history of Bill Lane and his baseball affiliations from 1999 through the Padres move to Mission Valley in 1958. Brief vignettes, presented in a smooth and informative style, effectively summarize each baseball season and give the reader a quick glimpse at the Pacific Coast League in the l930s, 40s, and 50s. There...
Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1926.htm
...There is in that direction a large territory beyond the San Diego river and the Mission Valley, a stretch of over ten miles from north to south, which barring Mission Beach, Pacific Beach and La Jolla, with a few other minor exceptions, does not appear to be adapted on account of its extent, location and topography for development in the immediate future as an...
...The final project recommended is a connection between the foot of 6th street grade to Mission Valley and the mesa on the north side of the valley....
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95spring/kensington.htm
...Kensington Heights was the last of the parcels to be developed, and consisted of 115 acres overlooking Mission Valley....
...The advertising campaign for Kensington Heights began on January 3, 1926. The first advertisement invited the public to drive over this "diamond in the rough," admire the view of Mission Valley, and "feel the spell of one of California's most glorious scenes." 17 The advertisement included a map to the subdivision that started at the Spreckels building downtown, went through Balboa Park, and across...
San Diego History: Chronology
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/dream/dreamchrono.htm
...1958 City Council approves zone change to allow May Department Stores Company to build shopping center in Mission Valley. ...
...1966 Construction of a $27,000,000 sports stadium in Mission Valley approved by voters. ...
Where California Began
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/wcb/wcb5.htm
...Since the 1870s San Diego had depended on wells downtown, in the canyons of the city park, and most importantly, those of the San Diego Water Company in Mission Valley....
...Some days later the news circulated that air-locks in the mains had prevented the flume water from reaching the town, and the water in the fountains on the day of the celebration had come from the Mission Valley wells just as water had for years....
Pourade: The Silver Dons
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/silver/silverchapter10.htm
...The elder Garra had been educated at San Luis Rey Mission and was a willing listener to the whis-pered suggestions of Bill Marshall, the white renegade who had encouraged the Pauma Valley Indians in the murder of the eleven Californios....
...With no enemy to fight, they camped in Mission Valley and ranged through Old Town on drunken sprees and threatened to sack the town....
More Finding Aids
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/findaid/ac103.htm
...SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTES: Contains glass plate negatives primarily from the early 1900s with views of Coronado, San Diego Bay, downtown San Diego, Old Town, Point Loma, Ocean Beach, La Jolla, Mission Valley, and the back country....
...92:18748/119 Landscape view of Mission Valley ...
Pourade: City of the Dream
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/dream/dreamchapter11.htm
...Though Barron Hilton, owner of the Chargers, had been enthusiastic about a "floating" stadium in Mission Bay, the architectural firm selected a site in Mission Valley for a stadium that would have to cost $27,600,000....
...Another site for a Broadway-Hale store would be in a $50,000,000 shopping center being built in Mission Valley, en-compassing, in part, the site of the old Westgate ball park....
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/68july/landmarks.htm
...On July 16, 1769, Father Jun ro Serra erected a cross and dedicated the Presidio and Mission of San Diego de Alcal After five years the Mission was shifted from the protection of the fortified enclosure to its present location in Mission Valley....
...The mission is six miles northeast of Old Town, in the east end of Mission Valley. ...
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/90winter/sdinc.htm
...One of the first malls in the United States, the Linda Vista Shopping Center, had been completed in 1942. 10 In the early 1950s three new malls were on the drawing boards: the College Grove Center to be completed in 1960 and the Mission Valley and the Grossmont Centers to be completed in 1961. 11 Although these malls would generate new jobs and add...
...to the overall prosperity of San Diego, downtown merchants feared that they would also lessen retail sales in downtown stores and quicken the decay of a once prosperous Centre City business district. 12 The proposed establishment of the Mission Valley shopping center was deemed to be such a threat to the economy of downtown San Diego that it was dubbed "Old Town's Revenge." 13...
Smythe: History of San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/smythe/2-6.htm
...ARG LLO, Santiago. Son of Jos . Argu born at Monterey 1791. Paymaster at San Diego in 1818, and in 1821 had a garden in Mission Valley....
...LOPEZ, Ignacio. Soldier, living in Mission Valley, 1821. Father of Bonifacio and probably others....
Smythe: History of San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/smythe/2-12.htm
...In 1856 Mr. Morse retired from the firm and Mr. Whaley con-tinued alone, also engaging in brickmaking in Mission Valley-the first burnt bricks made in San Diego County....
Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1981.htm
...In the 1970s the Navy began considering moving Balboa Hospital out of the park and chose Murphy Canyon north of Mission Valley....
...This year the Board of Supervisors approved the idea these properties, the CAC parking here, the Pacific Building, Pacific Highway at Ash Street, Vauclain Point (choice view site overlooking Mission Valley)....
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2002-3/humanist.htm
...In his letter to Verger, Jayme spoke of incidents at the Kumeyaay village at the end of Mission Valley, which was located along the coastal plain near False Bay on the road to Monterey....
...At the new location east of the presidio in Mission Valley, he believed that the immoral influences of the lower caste Spanish soldiers could be minimized for both neophyte and gentile Indians alike. 3 Dismayed with the actions of Fages' soldiers, Serra wrote to Antonio Mar de Bucareli y Ursua, Viceroy of New Spain, and described the terrible incidents....
Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1927.htm
...Academy of Our Lady of Peace (Villa Montemar) overlooks Mission Valley; facilities for 600....
...June 19, 1927, San Diego Union, Classified, 6:2. Colonel John A. Griffin, former Los Angeles city engineer, visualizes plans for beautification of Mission Valley and future city growth; would establish new park between Linda Vista mesa and San Diego proper....
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/75winter/merchants.htm
...This small production continued up to the period of Mexican independence, and by 1821 small patches of cultivated lands, called rancherias, could be found not only along the base of Presidio Hill, but out across Mission Valley....
...To encourage agriculture, the Herald stressed the value of saline land between Old Town and "False Bay" (Mission Bay) and between Mission Valley and the bay, an area which had always been considered useless for agriculture....
Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1929.htm
...Mission Cliff Gardens, on rim of valley, one of City's show places....
...October 19, 1929, San Diego Union, 10:4. City Council and Board of Supervisors favor Nolen plan for Mission Valley highway;...
More Finding Aids
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/findaid/ac094.htm
...Other subjects include agriculture, aviation, businesses, churches, clubs, dams, dwellings, ferryboats, fire departments, hospitals, libraries, parades, railroads, schools, sports stadiums, the USS Bennington disaster, and the Tijuana Insurrection of 1911. Locations depicted include the back country, Coronado, Del Mar, El Cajon, Escondido, Imperial Valley, Julian, La Jolla, Mission Bay, Mission Beach, Ocean Beach, Oceanside, Pacific Beach, Palomar, Point Loma, downtown San Diego, San Diego...
...Waterfront Scenes PC 23-0 through PC 23-8 Lakeside PC 24-0 through PC 24-5 La Mesa PC 25-0 Lemon Grove PC 26-0 through PC 26-1 Leucadia PC 27-0 through PC 27-20-1 Mesa Grande PC 28-0 through PC 28-9 Mission Bay PC 29-0 through PC 29-7 Mission Beach PC 30-0 through PC 30-34 Mission Cliff Gardens PC 31-0 through PC 31-20 Mission Valley ...
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/69winter/part5.htm
...They had a large family. Their ranch home was in Mission Valley, near the old Mission....
Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1989.htm
...Land cost of 1.7 acres in, for example, North Park or Mission Valley, at $20 per square foot - $1.5 million....
...The union members voted 224-180 for the new agreement during a sometimes stormy meeting last night at the Scottish Rite Center in Mission Valley....
Pourade: The Silver Dons
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/silver/silverchapter5.htm
...John Bid-well, one of the Sacramento Valley settlers who had joined Fremont, had been left in charge of the San Luis Rey Mission and he hurriedly pushed a small cannon into a mud hole and with his handful of men fled to San Diego....
...In a short time, they retreated through the valley toward the Mission. ...
More Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/99summer/presidio.htm
...For example, Kumeyaay use included an area larger than the area used by Fort Stockton in 1848. The focus on Kumeyaay use encompasses what is known today as the Mission Valley area toward Mission Bay and the ocean....
Pourade: The Glory Years
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/glory/glorychapter13.htm
...In 1816 the Franciscan padres had completed a small dam across the San Diego River in narrow Mission Gorge, to store water and regulate its flow to the fields of the San Diego Mission in Mission Valley....
Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1956.htm
...Fiesta Horse Show will begin today at Valley Lane Farm in Mission Valley....
Smythe: History of San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/smythe/2-8.htm
...The enemy made a new stand behind the old Presidio walls, but soon retreated up the valley toward the mission....
...Twelve guns were mounted in the spaces between these casks in a manner to command the approaches from Los Angeles and Mission Valley....
Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1913.htm
...Down in the quiet, peaceful Mission Valley stretched the sacred fields where was shed the blood of California's first martyr,...
...The Superintendent was instructed to ascertain the cost of putting in a salt water service for a proposed aquarium, and also take up the matter of a water supply from Mission Valley, with Councilman Fay, Superintendent of the Water Department, and report at next meeting of the Board....
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/68october/landscape.htm
...Up until that time the Presidio relied on the part time services of the priests from the mission, who, since the removal of the mission up into the valley, were assigned the spiritual duties of the Presidio. ...
...He knew, before 1774 that he would have to move up Mission Valley, nearer the Indians....
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95winter/paradise.htm
...Lane Field fell to termites and Westgate Park rose on grazing land in Mission Valley. ...
San Diego Oral History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/audio/index.htm
...African Americans Mexican Americans Agriculture Military and Bases Architects Mining Artists Mission Valley The Border Music and Musicians Californios Native Americans Cattle Industry Natural Disasters Chinese Americans Neighborhoods Crime and Corruption Old Town Dairies Politicians and Politics Defense Industries Railroads Developers Religious Sects Doctors and Medicine Sports Expositions Surfing German Americans Tijuana The Harbor Tourism Japanese Americans Tuna Industry Law Enforcement Water Labor ...
Serra's San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/ssd/ssd.htm
...The mission site was moved from the presidio area in 1774 to a location near the river six miles inland in Mission Valley....
Samuel Parsons Jr and Balboa Park
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/parsons/parsons10.htm
...This morning Mr. Parsons was taken by Mr. Marston for a three-hours drive over the park, though the big Pound and Switzer canyons, over the Sixth street boulevard, across University Heights to the pavilion overlooking Mission valley, and back via Fifth street....
Santiago Argu o
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/bio/arguello/arguello.htm
...Son of Jos . Arguello, born at Monterey 1791. Paymaster at San Diego in 1818, and in 1821 had a garden in Mission Valley....
Where California Began
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/wcb/wcb2.htm
...San Diego was officially founded July 16 on a hill above Rivera's camp, a hill chosen for its commanding view of Mission Valley with its large native population, of the bay, and the area surrounding....
...In 1774 permission was received to remove San Diego Mission to its present site about five miles up the valley, where there was a large native village called Nipaguay....
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/67january/pueblo.htm
...In that (this) campaign we did not go over to Santa Ysabel; it was then a prosperous mission establishment-subject to the Mission of San Diego: its valley is about 15 miles from Cuyamaca Valley, and about 50 miles, N.E. of the Presidio or Pueblo of San Diego. 8 ...
...The mission in 1825, claimed down the Mission Valley, to the Canada de Osuna" 9 -deriving this name from the fact that Don Juan Maria Osu (the same who was afterward Alcalde) raised grain (wheat crossed out) there....
More Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/89summer/br-brand.htm
...Paul and Greta Ezell offered a fascinating account of their archeological investigation which led to the identification of the Cosoy Indian village in Mission Valley - the first Indian settlement named by the Spanish in California....
Panama-California Exposition 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/cardlist/list430.htm
...The Mission Valley of San Diego; from the Cliff Gardens ...
Smythe: History of San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/smythe/1-3.htm
...The spot selected for the permanent mission is about six miles up the valley from the original settlement on Presidio Hill....
...The eagerness of the force assigned to the mission saved the Presidio, for the party which was headed down the valley saw the flames at the mission and reasoned that the soldiers at the fort would be alarmed at the sight and thus prepared to resist attack....
More Finding Aids
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/findaid/ac111.htm
...Mission San Diego de Alcala; Mission Valley in 1887; La Jolla caves; an interior view of tent lodgings for tourists in 1886 [at Coronado's Tent City?] and a G.A.R. encampment near Mt. Hope Cemetery; also, coal bunkers and a California Southern locomotive. ...
Thomas Whaley
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/bio/whaley/whaley.htm
...In 1856 Mr. Morse retired from the firm and Mr. Whaley continued alone, also engaging in brickmaking in Mission Valley-the first burnt bricks made in San Diego County....
Journal San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/55april/please.htm
...Back in 1916, a prolonged drought led to a venture in rainmaking which was featured by the employment of Charles M. Hatfield, a professional rainmaker; it was featured also by floods which took out Lower Otay Dam, filled Mission Valley from edge to edge and are still recalled with grave head-shaking by old-timers....
San Diego History Center
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/online_resources/hardy.html
...The end result was a 125-acre site chosen on a rim east of Mission Valley, which was bought for $50,000....
San Diego Sports
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/collections/sports/stadium.htm
...Aerial view of Westgate Park in Mission Valley Jan 12, 1958 - detail ...
San Diego postcards
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/communities/missioncliff/missioncliff.htm
...Mums with Pavilion in b/g Enjoy the view of Mission Valley ...
Book Reviews
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/76spring/br-catholicism.htm
...The Mission in the Valley: A Documentary History of San Fernando, Rey de Espa b>. Compiled and edited by Msgr. Francis J. Weber....
...Regarding The Mission in the Valley, Msgr. Weber comments that it "is meant more as a source-book for future researchers than a concisely-written and neatly-organized chronicle of events....
Samuel Parsons Jr and Balboa Park
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/parsons/parsons17.htm
...E. Benard, of Mission Valley, has had the care of the park-grown plants since last August, and has brought this stock on into good thrifty condition for planting during January and February....
Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1967.htm
...Construction of two miles of steel fence between lanes of U.S. 395 between Balboa Park and Mission Valley will begin tomorrow night....
Pourade: City of the Dream
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/dream/dreamchapter12.htm
...Hotels and motels were locating in Mission Valley or in San Diego Bay where marinas and clubs beckoned to yachting en-thusiasts from the entire Southwest....
Rising Tide by Richard Pourade
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/rising/risingchapter6.htm
...When the voters rejected a site in Balboa Park for the new State College, another area overlooking Mission Valley and the crumbling ruins of the San Diego Mission was chosen....
Pourade: The Silver Dons
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/silver/silverchapter6.htm
...From here also a trail led northerly through a series of rich, comparatively flat upland valleys to lush Temecula, from where the trail again branched, one southwest, back toward the San Luis Rey Mission and down to San Diego, and the other going north through open country to Los Angeles. ...
...In a clear and cold moonlit night Gillespie and his Volunteers pushed their horses and mules over the rolling mesa between Mis-sion and El Cajon Valleys....
More Pourade: Time of the Bells
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/time/timechapter10.htm
...The settlers had begun to move down the hill, from the presidio around 1824. From a distance he could see the white mission far up the valley, and arranged to visit Frs. Vicente Oliva and Fernando Martin....
...The verdant valley in which this mission is placed, already enlivened by great herds which could as yet be seen only as white and red spots, stretched to the north as far as the eye could reach, where the landscape was bounded by a group of high mountains whose outlines and summits were but softly made out through the light morning mists....
Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/99summer/photospresidioa.htm
...[Photo utg7590] Page 201. The Junipero Serra Museum sitting atop Presidio Hill was a lonely sentinel overlooking an undeveloped Mission Valley in 1929. [Photo 90-18138-47] ...
Pourade: The Explorers
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/explorers/explorerschapter8.htm
...The river came down from some very high mountains through a wide canyon (Mission Valley), which ran into the interior in an easterly and northeasterly direction. ...
Pourade: The Explorers
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/explorers/explorerschapter1.htm
...The silt today is about one hundred feet deep in the bed of the river and forms the broad flood plain of Mission Valley. ...
..."At the time of the first establishment of the Mission of San Diego, and the 'Presidio', or the military post, this plain, and in fact the whole valley for six miles above, was covered with a dense forest of sycamore, willow, and cottonwood, with an undergrowth of various kinds of shrubbery, among which the wild grape was most abundant....
Pourade: The Glory Years
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/glory/glorychapter10.htm
...This proved to be very costly so a tunnel was driven through the hills from a point in Mission Valley and the water was piped through it to University Avenue, where it was allowed to flow across the empty mesa to a reservoir at what is now Fifth Avenue and Hawthorn Street. ...
Pourade: Gold in the Sun
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/gold/goldchapter13.htm
...He was Charles F. Walsh, who had been born in Mission Valley in 1877. He had become fascinated by the daring feats of the pioneers of flight and put together two airplanes, only one of which flew....
Pourade: Gold in the Sun
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/gold/goldchapter6.htm
...The great, broad, quiet mesas, the picturesque canyons, the bold line of distant mountains, the wide hard ocean beaches, the great Bay, its beauty crowned by the islands of Coronado, the caves and coves of La Jolla, the unique Torrey Pines, the Lovely Mission Valley-these are but some of the features of the landscape that should be looked upon as precious assets to be...
...The first was inaugurated by the Mission Fathers who conquered two generations of prosperity from the fertile soil of our valleys....
Where California Began
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/wcb/wcb7.htm
...In twenty years that daily traffic jam is expected to extend over 100 miles, centering on downtown and Mission Valley. ...
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