🔥 Old Town San Diego. Where The City Started! Part 1.
Channel: Lidija SKOLNIJA 🔥Sparklet!
Date: 2022-04-20

🇺🇸 Hey, Friends! 🔥Sparklet here. Me and Mick today in the Old Town. We are going to show you about San Diego City where it’s started. YES! We are entering the Old Town of San Diego. You see signs here. And I a going to tell you today how it appeared here. 

Native American culture in the San Diego area goes back over 10,000 years. When the Europeans arrived at what is known as Old Town San Diego today, it was already home to the Kumeyaay people. The Kumeyaay had been living on the banks of the San Diego River for thousands of years. The Kumeyaay existed in a sophisticated hunter-gather lifestyle. Small game and acorns were the major food sources. However, their knowledge of the land yielded additional foodstuffs and medicine.

The first European explorer to arrive was Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo. He claimed the area for Spain, calling it San Miguel on September 28th, 1542. He described the area as “an enclosed and very good port”, and of the Kumeyaay people he reported they “were good-natured and attractive people”.

Hello Lidija! Hi Mick! Did you see the early San Diego homes? Yes! I was trying to fake people out, so it looks like a real town. Haha, ha Beautiful town!

Old Town San Diego is called the birthplace of California because in 1769 Father Junipero Serra, along with a group of Spanish soldiers, established the first permanent European settlements in California. Father Serra built the first of the 21 Missions that anchor the development of California for Spain. The Mission was originally built next to the Spanish fort called the Presidio, which is on a hill overlooking the San Diego River and what is Old Town San Diego today.

In 1769 the first mission in San Diego was built by Fr. Junipero Serra. I hope I said his name properly. Franciscan Missionary. And they helped to train the Indians to become good Christians. 

Behind me is a Catholic Church in a tradition of Spanish Missionaries. That means that in California the Spanish Missionaries first came here and established missions for the Indians, and they look very much like this. And this may, in fact, have been one of the small missions they’ve made, I don’t know. They may just have made it after the tradition of Spanish missions.  

In 1821 Mexico became independent from Spain, and in 1822 a new military command, along with the former Spanish soldiers, created a community at the base of the Presidio. Today, most of that area is Old Town State historical park. 

They made the structures of sun-dried adobe bricks, and four of those adobe brick buildings still stand today.

This is authentic adobe. You can tell that people have been stepping on it and it's been worn away. All the feet go over it. 

And this is what Lidija told me she wants for me. To put around my neck. Haha, ha…
What is that? Haha, ha… 

You got a promise me that you'll build a house of at least $300 dollars. Ha hah ha … House for $300! Haha, ha … Which is probably a lot back then. It was called before he bought it the Rancho de Nacion, which included what is now National City and Chula Vista. Oh! Wow! 

We are gonna go to the Minor Gem place behind me. Look for shungite. Oh! Right.

Mexico’s rule ended in 1846 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In 1850, California became a state, and San Diego was incorporated as a city that same year.

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