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san diego,californiaPortuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the discoverer of California, sailed into what is now San Diego Bay and claimed the surrounding region for the King of Spain in 1542. The first European settlement there was established in 1769, when the Franciscan fathers established a mission on a hill overlooking the bay. The mission was the first in a chain of twenty-one that the Franciscans built in California. In 1602 Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino arrives with his flagship San Diego, and names the area for a Spanish Catholic saint, San Diego de Alcalá.

By the 1830s, a small but thriving trading village had developed on the bay, in the district now called “Old Town.” The town became an important shipping point for cattle hide and quarried stone. It is said that the cobblestone streets of Boston have been paved with San Diego stone.
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