The Exchange Hotel

San Diego County · San Diego Avenue, Old Town, San Diego · location approximate

This tablet marks the site of the Exchange Hotel. Here June 29, 1851, Masons met for the first time in San Diego, and organized the lodge which became San Diego Lodge No. 35, F. & A.M., the oldest lodge of Masons in southern California.

1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.

Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)

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