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Old Town San DiegoStay with your partner as you tour Old Town and answer the questions below. Take one photo

with your partner anywhere in Old Town to share in class tomorrow.

Start at the Robinson-Rose House Visitor’s Center .

1. San ie!o House - It was the first business in Old Town owned by African-American freemen.

What animal did Allen Light help save from extinction?

2. Casa "achado Sil#as $ Commercial Restaurant - This original adobe house provided a hidingplace for the Mexican flag from Americans in the war of 1!".

What is the heritage of the women making bread in the large picture?

3. %rick Courthouse - This bric# building was built by the Mormon $attalion after the Mexican American war.

Who was San Diego’s first lawyer and first district udge?

4. "ason Street School - This was %an &iego's first public school house.

!n the window there are "nstructions to the #eachers for $%&' ( what happened to a woman teacher

who married?

5. San ie!o &nion %uildin! - This structure was the home of %an &iego's first newspaper.

What was the period #ype Style )font* used to print the first paper?

6. Church o' the (mmaculate Conception - This church is named after the patroness saint of the %an&iego harbor.

What is the color of the dome at the top of the steeple?

7.)haley House - This supposedly haunted house acted as a court house and a theater for a shorttime.

"t was the town’s first +++++++ structure,

8. *l Campo Santo Cemetery - This was the (atholic cemetery of the first settlers of %an &iegoincluding someone who was hung at the )haley house.

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Whose headstone says that she lived to be $-% years old?

9. Seely Stables - This was the *uma + %an &iego stage stop for the ,nited %tates Mail %tage line.

!ne hundred years ago. how long did it take to travel by a carriage from San Diego to Los Angeles?

10. %lack Hawk +i#ery , %lacksmith - This was owned and operated by .$. inton.

What was a #yre Shrinker for?

11. +a Casa de *studillo - This casa is lin#ed to the marriage place of the Indian heroine in elenunt ac#son's bestseller novel /amona.

0ow many pianos are located in the hacienda?

12. ohnson House - The wood reconstruction demonstrates a traditional pre-fabricated house.

Where did the owner of the 1ohnson house also own property?

13. "cCoy House - This two story home was originally built by %heriff ames Mc(oy and housesexhibits highlighting Old Town history and its famous residents.

What pioneer humorist influenced 2ark #wain and 3ret 0arte?