Quarantine Station (Old La Playa)

San Diego County · Naval Electronic Laboratory, San Diego · location approximate

On this site stood "Hide Park"(La Playa) trading station and hide storage depot for the Pacific coast. This also was the scene of Richard Henry Dana Jr.'s hide droghing operations as described in Two Years Before the Mast; and the Hide House"Brookline," where in 1829 the American Flag was first unofficially raised in 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1971 register text, presented as a historical document.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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