CABRILLO
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CHAPTER ONE:
SHADOWS OF THE PAST AT CABRILLO NATIONAL MONUMENT (continued)

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Figure 1: Native American and Spanish Colonial Settlements, ca. 1800 AD in southern coastal California (Ronald May map). (click on image for an enlargement in a new window)

Point Loma peninsula
Figure 2: Major Hartman Bache's late 1850s sketch of Point Loma peninsula, looking northward from the Lighthouse location. Ridgetop roadway and settlement at Ballast Point are visible (National Park Service photograph from National Archives).

Point Loma Lighthouse
Figure 3: Major Hartman Bache's late 1850s sketch of the Point Loma Lighthouse as seen from Ballast Point anchorage. Curving roadway to ridgetop from Ballast Point is clearly visable (National Park Service photograph from National Archives).

Point Loma Lighthouse
Figure 4: Point Loma Lighthouse used for military housing, ca. 1917. Rainshed pavement and cistern exist but lens and illumination systems are missing (National Park Service photograph from historical collection of Title Insurance and Trust Company, San Diego).

aerial view of Point Loma peninsula
Figure 5: Vertical aerial view of Point Loma peninsula southern section illustrating main road (State Route 209), historic Lighthouse at roadway loop with parking lot, western ocean terraces with 1891 Lighthouse at peninsula tip and Gatchell Road connecting seaward Fort Rosecrans facilities. The rugged eastern terrace is accessed by Sylvester Road linking bayside installations with Fort Rosecrans and Ballast Point developments. Topographic differences between east and west peninsula slopes are evident in roadway configurations as switchbacks or linear cut-fill constructions (National Park Service photograph from National Archives).

aerial view of Point Loma peninsula
Figure 6: Early 1960s oblique aerial view of Cabrillo National Monument, looking northeast. Historic lighthouse, 1930s restroom and garage and overlook parking under modification are shown. Trail to Sylvester Road is visable on a knoll where Visitor Center was constructed in 1965-66. Base End Stations for coastal batteries are in lower right and upper left center, indicated by faint dark lines (National Park Service photograph from Naval Operations archives).

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