| Old La Playa
From 1770 to 1870, this was San Diego's port. Over the
Brookline hide house, Americans unofficially raised a
U.S. flag in 1829. At that time La Playa was a thriving
trading and shipping village. Richard Henry Dana's account
of the hide business in Two Years Before the Mast is based
on his hide-droghing experience here in 1835-36. The U.S.
Navy later acquired the site and operated a coaling station
and a quarantine station here. It is now a Navy research
center.
One of the oldest commercial routes in the far West
under Spain, Mexico and the United States. The trail connected
mission San Diego with the fort at La Playa from 1770
to 1870.
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