#50:  Ballast Point Whaling Station Site

Location:

End of Rosecrans St, Point Loma, San Diego

Plaque:

State Plaque

Links:

None

Notes:

Only military personnel are allowed on base. Although you can get on if you know someone getting married at the clubhouse, as I did.

Plaque Text:

Ballast Point Whaling Station Site

Late in 1857, the three Johnson brothers and the twin Packard brothers came to this site to survey possibilities for a station to 'try out' or extract whale oil. Their operations began the next year. In 1869 the U.S. Government acquired the property for Fort Rosecrans and in 1873 whaling operations at Ballast Point ended.

©2009 David Schmitt