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| • The City's 1.25 million residents make it the seventh largest city in the country and the second largest in California. Yet San Diego has a comfortable, small town atmosphere. | •
San Diego's place on the Pacific
Ocean and the international border with Mexico is unique. The border
crossing is the busiest in the entire world! • San Diego is home to clean, high technology businesses including manufacturing, defense, tourism and agriculture. Telecommunications, software and biotech are among San Diego's fastest growing industries. • Temperatures range from an average of 58 degrees in January to 73 degrees in July. Annual rainfall averages about 7 inches. • San Diego public schools are competitive with some of the best schools in the USA. SD Office of Education SD Union School District. San Diego Schools General Information Web sites |
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| • In 1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed at San Diego Bay, the first time that Europeans had set foot on what later became the west coast of the United States. | • In 1769 Mission San Diego de Alcala is officially founded on Presidio Hill, the first of a chain of twenty-one missions to be established along the California coast. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| • In 1870 Alonzo Horton opens his Horton House hotel on D Street (now Broadway) between Third and Fourth Streets (where the U. S. Grant Hotel now stands). Less than a month after his arrival, Horton purchased 960 acres for $265. Horton purposely makes lays out the blocks in the downtown area in very short distances, knowing merchants prefer corner stores. | • Since 1888 the Hotel del Coronado, one of the world's largest wooden structures, is a grand example of elegant Victorian architecture and one of America's most popular and beautiful resorts. This National Historic Landmark has served celebrities, tourists, and business alike. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| • In 1919 the United States Navy decides to make San Diego Bay home base for the Pacific Fleet. The Great White Fleet as it is known, becomes world famous and makes the USA a world power for the first time in its history. U.S. Navy's Great White Fleet brings more than 16,000 sailors into San Diego Harbor on 16 battleships, 7 destroyers and 4 auxiliary ships and on missions around the world. San Diego is also the birthplace of naval aviation | • Prior to 1949, Mission Bay was a 4000 acre marshland fed by the San Diego River. In 1949, the L.A. District of the Army Corps of Engineers and the City of San Diego jointly began construction of a small craft harbor and recreational facility. Three jetties were built along with dredging the navigation channels and small boat facilities. Dredged material was used to raise areas of the bay which had been semi-submerged. The width of the entrance to the harbor was 960 feet wide. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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