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Yesterday, a citizen non-profit organization called Mission Hills Heritage
held its first Presidio Walking Tour around the grassed-over ruins of the Royal
Presidio de San Diego in California. There were seven tour groups who
visited seven interpretive stations situated around the ruins of this 18th century
Spanish military installation. Among the tour docents at these stations were
Ron May, Richard Carrico, and Jack Williams (all of whom were students of the
late Paul H. Ezell at the San Diego State College Archaeology Field School
in the 1960s-70s). The tours also stopped at the 1929 Juniperro Serra Museum,
built to resemble a Spanish Colonial mission and greeted by Willam Doyle, who
dressed in a 1929 suit and played the role of George W. Marston, who bought
the historic archaeology site with his own family money, commissioned the
architectural design of the museum and contracted construction, landscape
design of the park, and planting of the plants before donating it all to the City
of San Diego. The tours then went on to the Mexican-American War site of Fort
Stockton before ending the tour at a park setting at the top of Presidio
Park. This is the first itnerpretive tour of Presidio Park since Jack Williams
shut down his Center for Spanish Colonial Research excavations in the 1990s.
Ron May
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