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🕊️ 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒓
February 3, 2017
Hiking
Probably the oldest building in all of California is here at the customs house, where the first Spanish harbor developed in what was then the undeveloped province of Alta California in the 1770s, a backwater of their Mexico colony.
Biber-Radler
November 18, 2023
Hiking
The Custom House, built around 1821 by the Mexican government, is California's first historic landmark and oldest public building. It is the site where the first American flag was raised on July 7, 1846, declaring California a part of the United States. It is a National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Landmark.
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November 15, 2017
Cycling
As the native Indian population left no lasting structures (they didn't need them in their pre-invasion paradise) Monterey now has the oldest buildings in California, left by the Spanish colonial port
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