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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: May 29, 2015
Caption: 1850 & 1851
Additional Description: 1850

California is admitted us the 31st state of the United States. The population of the little town of San Diego is recorded at 650, but this does not include Native-Americans living in the surrounding area.


1851

Following the failure of New Town, a short-lived settlement on the Bay, the only printing press is moved to Old Town and the first San Diego newspaper, the San Diego Herald, begins weekly publication.
Submitted: July 20, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p316677
File Size: 0.121 Megabytes

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