April 30, 2006 Dansk tekst til venstre English text on the right Presidio Park and Serra Museum, San Diego, California Presidio Park and the Serra Museum is located near Old Town, San Diego, at 2727 Presidio Drive, San Diego, California. Telephone (619) 297-3258         Presidio Park kaldes også "Vestens Plymouth Rock," og er, da det var her den første Californiske missionskirke oprindeligt lå, det sydligste punkt på El Camino Real, den kystvej, der forbinder Calforniens missioner. Presidio Park is also called "Plymouth Rock of the West," and as the original site of the first California mission was the Southern point of El Camino Real, the coastal route which connects all the California missions. Den gamle El Camino Real er her en af de landeveje, der efter anden verdenskrig blev tilegnet det amerikanske militær. The old El Camino Real is here one of the routes that were designated Blue Star Memorial Highways after World War II. Dette er også stedet, hvortil Jedidiah Strong Smith ankom i 1826 og blev den første amerikaner til at krydse det sydvestlige USA This is also the place where Jedediah Strong Smith arrived in 1926, becoming the first American to traverse the American Southwest.   Serra Museet er bygget i 1929 til ære for Fader Junipero Serra og grundlægningen af San Diego. Museet indeholder et sammensurium af gamle ting, men besynderligt nok synes det meste af indholdet at omhandle selve museumsbygningen. The Serra Museum was built in 1929 to honor Father Junipero Serra and the founding of San Diego. The museum contains a hodgepodge of historical items, but strangely most of the contents seem devoted to celebrate the museum building itself.

Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala blev oprindelig bygget her sammen med et militærfort i 1769, men missionen blev kort efter flyttet til, hvor den ligger i dag. Her var det nemmere at få adgang til vand, og indianerne var mindre fjendtlige. Fortet blev forladt i 1837, da San Diego by blev grundlagt. Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala was first established here along with a military fortress in 1769, but the mission was soon moved to its present site. Here water was easier to come by and Indians were less hostile. The fortress was abandoned in 1837 when San Diego was established as a town.   Bronzeskulpturen "Indianer" er af Arthur Putnam, og blev skænket af Ellen Browning Scripps. Ikke langt fra skulpturen er en elementær model af en missionsindiansk ewaa hytte. The bronze sculpture "Indian" was made by Arthur Putnam and donated by Ellen Browning Scripps. Close to the sculpture is a rudimentary model of a Kumeyaay ewaa hut.     I en lysning mellem pebertræerne står endnu en Arthur Putnam skulptur, "Munken." Både den og et stort kors står her til minde om Fader Junipero Serra. Korset er bygget af resterne af gulvklinkerne fra det gamle fort. In a clearing among the pepper trees stands another Arthur Putnam sculpture, "The Padre." That, along with a large cross, is placed here in honor of Padre Junipero Serra. The cross is built out of floor tile fragments from the old Presidio.

Serra Museet er omgivet af det, der engang var kirkegården og de Franciskanske Haver, og som i dag er Presidio Park. Surrounding the Serra Museum is what used to be the mission cemetery and the Franciscan Gardens, now Presidio Park.   Dette lille udhus er berømt - eller berygtet - for at have et indbygget pentagram i gulvet af udkigsposten på taget. Skønt der går mange skumle historier om grunden hertil, er det simpelthen bare et mønster, der var almindeligt brugt, da fortet blev bygget. Da drengespejderne og ungdomsklubben sammen byggede udsigtstårnet i 1950erne indbyggede de derfor mønstret for ægthedens skyld. This small outhouse is famous - or infamous - for having a pentagram built into the observation deck on the roof. Despite many sinister stories as to why, the simple fact is this was a design that was common at the time the Presidio was built. Thus when the Boy Scouts and the Junior League collaborated to build the observation tower in the 1950s they included the design for authenticity.     I næsten 200 år var de Franciskanske Haver hjem til Serrapalmerne, to dadelpalmer (ikke den på billedet), som var de første træer plantet i Californien, efter de blev bragt hertil i 1769. Den længst overlevende palme blev fældet i 1957. The Franciscan Gardens were for nearly 200 years home to the Serra Palms, two date palms (not the one in the picture) which were the first planted trees in California, having been brought here in 1769. The longest living of the two palms was cut down in 1957.

Derbydiget blev bygget her i 1853 af ingeniøren og humoristen George Horatio Derby for at beskytte San Diego bugten. Da de to kirkegårde, der skulle have ligget nær ved fortet aldrig er blevet fundet under udgravning, er der nogle der mener, at de begravedes jordiske rester blev gravet op og blandet med den jord, der blev brugt til opfyldning af diget. Derby Dike was built here in 1853 by engineer and humorist George Horatio Derby in order to protect the San Diego Bay. As the two burial grounds believed to lie adjacent to the Presidio have never been found during excavations there are some who fear the earthly remains of those buried here were scooped up and mixed with the fill dirt used to build the dike.     Egern i Presidio Park ~ Squirrel in Presidio Park

Arboret i Presidio Park er overbegroet af slyngroser. The arboretum in Presidio Park is overgrown with climbing roses.

På en lille bakke i Presidio Park ligger gamle Fort Stockton. Det blev oprindelig bygget af Californios i 1838, og var aldrig meget mere end en nødstørftig bastion beskyttet af en grøft og tønder fyldt med jord. Fort Stockton er nok bedst kendt som endepunkt for den 500-mand stærke Mormonske Bataljons march fra Iowa til Californien i 1847. Tropperne, på vej til at hjælpe amerikanerne i krigen mod Mexico, marcherede med deres familier i seks måneder. De ankom i San Diego lige efter våbenhvilen, og kom derfor aldrig i krig. On a knoll in Presidio Park lies old Fort Stockton. Originally built by the Californios in 1838, it was never much more than a makeshift bastion protected by a ditch and dirt-filled barrels. Fort Stockton may be most famous for being the ending point for the 1847 march of the 500 man strong Mormon Battallion from Iowa to California. The troops, on their way to help the Americans in the war against Mexico, marched on foot with their families for six months. They arrived in San Diego just after the armistice, and therefore never actually joined the war.             Denne statue "Mexikansk Cowboy til Hest" står i udkanten af Presidio Park. Den var en gave fra Mexico til San Diegos 200-års dag i 1969. This statue, "Mounted Charro," is located at the edge of Presidio Park. It was a gift from Mexico for San Diego's 1969 bicentennial.

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