Historic Sites and History

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (237+ words) Join award-winning historian and storyteller Dr. Sandra E. Bonura for a fully illustrated presentation featuring rare vintage zoo photographs, archival movie clips, and historic radio broadcasts. Together, we’ll celebrate her new 2026 book, The Zoo Lady: How Belle Benchley Built the San…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (347+ words) (NEXSTAR) – Fall is officially here, with winter just on the horizon. Regardless of the weather near you, you may have already noticed one of the trademarks of fall: the days are getting shorter. It’s a trend that has been ongoing…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1039+ words) University City is now known for UC San Diego, research institutions, planned neighborhoods, and its location near the Pacific. But the landscape looked very different before the community took shape. The area included ranches and agricultural land, military training grounds,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (344+ words) Today is Friday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2026. There are 97 days left in the year. On Sept. 25, 1978, 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego. In 1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1026+ words) Iris Engstrand, San Diego’s preeminent local historian who taught at the University of San Diego for 49 years and authored more than 20 books and dozens of articles on Spanish, California and San Diego history, died Sept. 12 at the age of 91. She…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (412+ words) For generations, Cathedral Rock was one of the natural landmarks that helped define La Jolla’s dramatic shoreline. Then, on a January morning in 1906, it suddenly collapsed. On Jan. 20, 1906, residents were awakened sometime between 3 and 4 a.m. by a tremendous roar. There…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (632+ words) A planned appeal of the city of San Diego’s proposal to care for La Jolla’s Red Rest and Red Roost cottages received further support on Sept. 3, when the La Jolla Community Planning Association voted to sign onto a letter recommending…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (654+ words) Dozens of locals, some who lived through the 9/11 attacks and others born years later, gathered on Saturday morning in Rancho Bernardo to remember the 2,977 victims who died 25 years earlier. They joined the dedication ceremony of the “One Event, One World…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (607+ words) by Debbie L. Sklar / Times of San Diego / Sept. 10, 2026 Kate Sessions was already a nationally recognized horticulturist by the time she established the Pacific Beach nursery that became closely associated with her later years.[ Ed: She later became known as the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (982+ words) By JOSEPH FREDERICK, DAVID R. MARTIN and LEAH WILLINGHAM Holding her child, she went outside. Around her, people stared up at a gash in the north tower of the World Trade Center, smoke billowing from the building just blocks from her…...