Dead Man's Point
La Punta De Los Muertos
Inscription Reads
La Punta
De Los Muertos
(Dead Man's Point)
Burial Site of Sailors and Mariners in 1782
When San Diego Bay was Surveyed & Charted
By Don Pantoja Y Arriaga, Pilot and
Don Jose' Tovar, Mate, of the "La Favorita" under
command of Don Augustin De Echeverria.
State Registered Landmark No. 57
Marker placed by San Diego County Board of Supervisors
and The Historical Markers Committee
Erected 1954
La Punta
De Los Muertos
(Dead Man's Point)
Burial Site of Sailors and Mariners in 1782
When San Diego Bay was Surveyed & Charted
By Don Pantoja Y Arriaga, Pilot and
Don Jose' Tovar, Mate, of the "La Favorita" under
command of Don Augustin De Echeverria.
State Registered Landmark No. 57
Marker placed by San Diego County Board of Supervisors
and The Historical Markers Committee
Erected 1954
The Story is that in April of 1769 two ships anchor in San Diego Bay and established a camp within the vicinity of this marker, a large amount of the crew were also gravely ill.
There were at least 4 men who died at sea, and quite a few more died over the weeks at the rate of 2 to 3 a day. This would make this site one of the oldest European burials in San Diego. Note that the site is most likely some small distance north, as this is all recent landfill. Near The SE corner of W Harbor Dr. and Pacific Drive. |