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CALENDAR OF EVENTS WHALEY HOUSE MUSEUM SERRA MUSEUM CITY SIGHTSEEING OLD TOWN TOLLEY TOURS HAUNTED SAN DIEGO TOURS MEXICOACH STATE HISTORIC PARK PRESIDIO PARK HERITAGE PARK HISTORIC SITES For more information go to the Hsitory page of this site. Robinson-Rose Bldg. James McCoy House Casa de Wrightington San Diego House U.S. House Casa Machado Silvas Racine & Larame Tobacco Store Colorado House First Brick Courthouse Mason Street School Casa Machado y Stewart McKinstry Dentist San Diego Union Casa de Pedrorena Casa de Estudillo Alvarado House Johnson House Blacksmith Shop Casa de Bandini Seeley Stables Immaculate Conception Church Derby Pendleton House Whaley House Sheriff's Museum Little Adobe Chapel El Campo Cemetery Casa de Carillo Serra Museum Mormon Battalion |
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| ATTRACTIONS Old Town San Diego is an attraction for many San Diego residents as well as tourists. Within Old Town there are three Park Agencies: State, City and County, all of which have historic sites operated as museums. Located at the northern end of Old Town, Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is the most visited park in the state system and all of its museums are free to the public. The state park spans the decades from Californio rule to the Mexican Period and finally to the American Period. Experience the days of the dons at the 1825 Casa de Estudillo, one of the finest adobe haciendas in the state; view a rare original stagecoach at the Wells Fargo Museum; see a scale model of nineteenth century Old Town at the reconstructed Robinson-Rose House, one-time Lodge of the Freemasons and home of San Diego’s first newspaper The San Diego Herald; the Black Hawk Livery & Blacksmith; the San Diego Union newspaper building; and the first public schoolhouse in San Diego, the Mason Street School. There are many more historic museums at the center of Old Town: the Whaley House Museum Complex is a county-owned park consisting of five historic buildings, the most famous of which is the Whaley House, believed by many to be the most haunted house in America in addition to housing the former county courthouse and San Diego’s first commercial theater; the Old Adobe Chapel, San Diego’s former parochial church and setting for the famous wedding of “Ramona,” is now a city-owned museum; the Church of the Immaculate Conception was formally dedicated in 1919; El Campo Santo Cemetery is the final resting place of nearly 500 nineteenth century residents including the Indian leader Antonio Garra and the notorious boat thief Yankee Jim Robinson; and you won’t want to miss the Sheriff’s Museum. All of these museums can be found along San Diego Avenue, Old Town’s main thoroughfare. Just up the hill from San Diego Avenue are the Serra Museum and Presidio Site, the Mormon Battalion Visitors Center, and Heritage Park, a 7.8 acre county park where seven Victorian homes have been relocated to save them from demolition and now house shops and bed and breakfasts. Tour Historic Old Town There are several types of tours to choose from. With a town as rich in culture as Old Town you could easily take more then one of these tours and gain multiple perspectives. Boosters of Old Town City Sightseeing Haunted San Diego |
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| Tequila Museum
At the Southern entrance to Old Town, overlooking San Diego Avenue from the second floor, is El Agave Restaurant and Tequileria. As you enter from a curved staircase with mexican tile and cactus plants you begin to sense a little of the Old World. A short walkway past wonderful, balcony seating and you arrive at the dark but inviting doorway. For those who can not just look, but feel the need to sample, El Agave offers 500 different types of tequila to choose from. Prices range from $5.75 to $175.00 per shot, and includes their very own Tequila El Agave Artesanal. So if you like margarita’s/ tequila you should take the time to visit and sample some old world cooking and aged tequila. |
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