It is hard to beat that for concision and accuracy. Now I know what I am looking at on the topo map and it greatly expands my understanding of accounts of the community on the breakwater. I think I am getting close to being ready to contact the San Pedro Historical Society.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
From the 1871Chief Engineer's Report to the Secretary of War
I have been trying for a few days now to describe the original landscape of San Pedro Bay, which is easy/hard. Easy because I have dozens of descriptions and images, but very little that explains what the original arrangement looked like. This is what the Army Corps of Engineers had to say in 1871:

It is hard to beat that for concision and accuracy. Now I know what I am looking at on the topo map and it greatly expands my understanding of accounts of the community on the breakwater. I think I am getting close to being ready to contact the San Pedro Historical Society.
It is hard to beat that for concision and accuracy. Now I know what I am looking at on the topo map and it greatly expands my understanding of accounts of the community on the breakwater. I think I am getting close to being ready to contact the San Pedro Historical Society.
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