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1885
Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: May 31, 2015
Caption: 1885
Additional Description: The arrival of California Southern's railroad fuels land speculation in San Diego that comes to be known as the “Great Boom of the Eighties.” The 1880 population of 2,637 swells to 40,000 in 1885.
Submitted: July 20, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p316690
File Size: 0.780 Megabytes

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