Old Mission Dam - San Diego, CA
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N 32° 50.387 W 117° 02.598
11S E 495947 N 3633526
This dam is very close to the parking lot at northern entrance of The Mission Trails Regional Park off of Mission Gorge Road.
Waymark Code: WMRJQ3
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 06/29/2016
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This dam is both a California Historical Landmark and a US Registered Landmark.
The California Marker (in relevant part)- gives the story of the dam:
This historic California site is also on the US Register of Historic Places. It is the first major irrigation project on the Pacific Coast.
The marker reads:
"MISSION DAM AND FLUME
AFTER MANY ATTEMPTS DATING BACK TO 1774 TO PROVIDE
A RELIABLE SOURCE OF WATER FOR CROPS AND LIVE-
STOCK FOR MISSION SAN DIEGO DE ALCALA, A DAM
AND FLUME SYSTEM WAS FINISHED BETWEEN 1813 AND
1816 BY INDIAN LABORERS AND FRANCISCAN MISSION-
ARIES TO DIVERT WATERS OF THE SAN DIEGO RIVER FOR
A DISTANCE OF 6 MILES. THE AQUEDUCT SYSTEM CON-
TINUED IN EXISTENCE UNTIL 1831 WHEN CONSTANT FLODDING
CAUSED THE DAM AND FLUME TO FALL INTO DISREPAIR.
THEY WERE NOT REPAIRED DUE TO THE SECULARIZATION OF
THE MISSIONS.
CALIFORNIA REGISTERED HISTORICAL LANDMARK NO.52"
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