CABRILLO Administrative History

¹John Ise, Our National Park Policy: A Critical History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1961), 353.

²William C. Everhart, The National Park Service (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983), 23.

³Horace M. Albright as told to Robert Cahn, The Birth of the National Park Service: The Founding Years, 1913-33 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Howe Brothers, 1985), 295.

⁴Ibid., 296.

⁵U. S. Department of Interior. Annual Report of the Department of Interior, 1933 (Washington, D.C., U. S Government Printing Office), 155.

⁶Albright, The Birth of the National Park Service, 91-92.

⁷John R. White to Arno B. Cammerer, Director, National Park Service, 8 January 1934, National Park Service Records, Cabrillo National Monument File, RG 79, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

⁸Ibid.

⁹San Diego Union, 5 January 1934.

¹⁰Arthur H. Hill to John R. White, 6 January 1934, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

¹¹Ibid.

¹²John R. White to Director National Park Service, 11 January 1934, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

¹³Ibid.

¹⁴Minutes of Cabrillo Committee, San Diego Historical Society, 19 January 1934 (on file San Diego Historical Society).

¹⁵San Diego Sun, 20 January 1934.

¹⁶Minutes of Cabrillo Committee, 23 January 1934.

¹⁷Ibid.

¹⁸John Ise, Our National Park Policy, 359.

¹⁹W.G. Carnes to Thomas C. Vint, 23 February 1934, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

²⁰Ibid.

²¹Representative George Burnham to Director, 7 May 1934, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

²²Verne C. Chatelain to Isabel Story, 3 May 1934. CNM File, RG 79. NA.

²³Director to George Burnham, 8 May 1934, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

²⁴San Diego Sun, 10 May 1934.

²⁵W. L. McFadden, "El Camino Cabrillo, New Highway to Point Loma Officially Opened to Public," California Highways and Public Works, 12 (August 1934), 10-11.

²⁶John R. White to Director, 23 July 1934, CNM File, RG 79. NA.

²⁷Ibid.

²⁸W.G. Carnes, "Report of Inspection of Cabrillo National Monument," 26 September 1934, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

²⁹San Diego Tribune, 22 August 1934.

³⁰John R. White to W. G. Carnes, 24 August 1934, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

³¹Minutes San Diego Historical Society, 17 August 1933 (on file San Diego Historical Society).

³²John R. White to W. G. Carnes, 24 August 1934, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

³³W. G. Carnes, "Report on Inspection of Cabrillo National Monument," CNM File, RG 79, NA.

³⁴William C. Everhart, The National Park Service, 59-60.

³⁵W. G. Carnes, "Report on Inspection of Cabrillo National Monument," p. 2, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

³⁶Sam D. Hendricks, "Final Construction Report on Alteration and Restoration of the Lighthouse, Project No. F.P. 619," 31 December 1935, p. 4, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

³⁷Ibid.

³⁸Ibid., p. 6.

³⁹Ibid. There has been some to criticism as to the quality and appropriateness of the reconstruction done by the Park Service in 1933. F. Ross Holland discusses this in detail in F. Ross Holland, Jr. and Henry G. Law, Historic Structure Report: The Old Point Loma Lighthouse Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, California (Denver: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1981).

⁴⁰Ibid., p. 3.

⁴¹Director to George Burnham 13 June, 1934, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

⁴²Ibid.

⁴³Leroy A. Wright to George Burnham 19 June 1934, Cabrillo National Monument File, San Diego Historical Society.

⁴⁴John R. White to W.G. Carnes, 24 August 1934, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

⁴⁵W.G. Carnes to John R. White, 26 January 1935, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

⁴⁶Promotional booklet published by Grand Council of Cabrillo Civic Clubs, 1936, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

⁴⁷Ibid.

⁴⁸Typescript titled: "Original wording for Cabrillo plaque", CNM file, San Diego Historical Society.

⁴⁹Manuel F. Sylva to Richard J. Welch, 13 August 1935, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

⁵⁰Richard J. Welch to Director, 16 August 1935, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

⁵¹Gardner to Director, 22 August 1935, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

⁵²Marginal note by Arthur E. Demaray on memo of Malcolm Gardner to Director, 22 August 1935, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

⁵³W. G. Carnes, "Report on Inspection of Cabrillo National Monument," p. 6, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

⁵⁴Marginal note by Thomas C. Vint on W.G. Carnes, "Report on Inspection of Cabrillo National Monument," CNM File, RG 79, NA.

⁵⁵Secretary of Interior to Secretary of War, 22 December 1934, CNM, RG 79, NA.

⁵⁶Acting Secretary of War Woodring to Secretary of Interior, 6 April 1934, CNM File, RG 79, NA.

⁵⁷Permit issued to Department of Interior (National Park Service) by Department of War, 23 May 1935, CNM File, RG 79, NA. The permit, though renewable, was issued for a period of only five years. This caused contention because the Park Service felt that it made planning for long term development impossible.

⁵⁸Sam D. Hendricks, "Final Construction Report." p. 9, CNM File, RG79, NA.

⁵⁹American Automobile Association, Westways, 26 (October 1934), 1.

⁶⁰San Diego Union, 29 September 1935.

⁶¹Ibid.