CABRILLO Administrative History

¹Interview with Donald Robinson, 13 March, 1986, Cabrillo National Monument Oral History Project (transcription on file, Cabrillo National Monument).

²Peninsula News, Point Loma, California, 8 January 1952.

³Robinson to Scoyen, 5 January 1953, National Park Service Central Classified Files, 1925-1953, Western Region (Region 4), RG 79, National Archives, San Francisco Branch, San Bruno, California.

⁴Scoyen to Regional Director, 5 January 1955, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁵Regional Director to Director, 11 January 1955, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁶Ibid.

⁷Park Naturalist to Superintendent of Sequoia, 20 January 1955, File D-18 (Planning Program), Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁸Ibid.

⁹Introduction, Master Plan Development Outline, Cabrillo National Monument, File D 18, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

¹⁰Ibid.

¹¹William C. Everhart, The National Park Service (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983), 25.

¹²American Forests, August 1955, 16, quoted by John Ise, Our National Park Policy: A Critical History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1961), 547.

¹³Everhart, The National Park Service, 27.

¹⁴San Diego Tribune, 30 May 1956.

¹⁵Ibid., 9 April 1958.

¹⁶The records for this important transition period for the monument are not available. A check of records at the monument, regional branch of the National Archives and the Federal Regional Records Center failed to locate any documents whatever for the year 1956.

¹⁷Interview with Donald Robinson, 13 March 1986.

¹⁸Interview with F. Ross Holland, 6 October 1984. Cabrillo National Monument Oral History Project, (transcription on file, Cabrillo National Monument).

¹⁹Ibid.

²⁰Ibid

²¹F. 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), 74-76.

²²Interview with Donald Robinson, 13 March 1986.

²³Ibid.

²⁴Ibid.

²⁵Interview with Ross Holland, 6 October 1985.

²⁶Western Explorer, January 1966.

²⁷Interpretive Prospectus for Cabrillo National Monument prepared by F. Ross Holland, Jr., File D-18, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

²⁸Ibid.

²⁹Interview with Donald Robinson, 13 March 1986.

³⁰San Diego Union, 27 September 1958 and Monthly Narrative Report, October, 1958, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

³¹Interview with Robinson, 13 March 1986.

³²Ibid.

³³San Diego Union, 29 April 1957.

³⁴Ibid.

³⁵San Diego Union, 19 March 1957.

³⁶San Diego Tribune, 25 January 1956.

³⁷Ibid.

³⁸Monthly Narrative Reports, December 1959, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

³⁹San Diego Tribune, 16 September 1959.

⁴⁰Monthly Narrative Reports, August 1959, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁴¹Monthly Narrative Reports, March 1960, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁴²Monthly Narrative Reports, October 1960, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁴³Monthly Narrative Reports, March 1962, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁴⁴Interview with Thomas Tucker, 6 September 1985, Cabrillo National Monument Oral History Project, (transcription on file, Cabrillo National Monument).

⁴⁵Monthly Narrative Reports, February 1961, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁴⁶Barry Mackintosh, The National Parks: Shaping the System (Washington D.C.: Division of Publications, National Park Service, 1985), 43-44.

⁴⁷San Diego Union, 20 February 1967.

⁴⁸Monthly Narrative Reports, August 1959, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁴⁹Interview with Ross Holland, 6 October 1985.

⁵⁰Monthly Narrative Reports, October 1961, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁵¹San Diego Tribune, 1 October 1957.

⁵²San Diego Union, 30 November 1958.

⁵³San Diego Union, 28 April 1962.

⁵⁴Monthly Narrative Reports, January 1962.

⁵⁵Interview with Tom Tucker, 6 September 1985.

⁵⁶Ibid.

⁵⁷Minutes of monthly staff meeting, 14 March 1962, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁵⁸Monthly Narrative Reports, May 1962, Cabrillo National Monument Files.

⁵⁹San Diego Union, 28 July 1963.

⁶⁰Visitation figures provided by United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.