San Diego
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- Names
San Diego
Old Town
San Miguel
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Pacific Ocean on San Diego Bay, near Mexican border; site of 1st California mission established in 1769 by Father Junípero Serra; pueblo was built by Mexicans in 1834; thrived as port & center for agriculture & transportation.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
Max Benjamin (American, born 1928)
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