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SAN DIEGO – On the Derivation and Definition of the Names …

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Daily Alta California, Volume 1, Number 103, 29 April 1850 REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE On the Derivation and Definition of the Names of the several Counties of the State of California, &c. SAN DIEGO. — This county (St. James) derives its name from its present chief town, named after the harbor, which is only … [Read more…]

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Daily Alta California, 17 June 1851 Ever since California changed her national allegiance, the southern section of it, especially the Los Angeles Valley, has endured all manner of oppressions from wild Indians and dissolute white men with far less conscience and much greater capacity and taste for evil than the untaught savage. The Mexican rule … [Read more…]