SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Members of the La Playa Trail Association will place a monument at 10:15 a.m., Thursday, April 29, at the corner of Rosecrans Street and Avenida de Portugal to mark the location where the town of Roseville was founded in 1869 by Louis Rose.
The monument duplicates one that had been erected in 1934 to mark the spot where Rose had hoped to move the commercial center of San Diego from the Old Town area.
Guest participants in the ceremony will be San Diego City Councilmember Kevin Faulconer, San Diego County Supervisor Greg Cox, and journalist/ historian Donald H. Harrison, editor of San Diego Jewish World and author of Louis Rose: San Diego’s First Jewish Settler and Entrepreneur.
La Playa Trail Association Co-chair Klonie Kunzel collaborated with architect Richard J. Lareau to design the marker funded with a grant from the Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation, the Point Loma Foundation and District 2 City Counciman Faulconer.
The La Playa Trail runs from Ballast Point, which once housed the Spanish Fort Guijarros to Mission San Diego. Markers pictured an Indian vaquero and a Mexican carretta.
The Roseville monument orginally stood a block away from Thursday’s ceremonial site at Rosecrans and Bryon Streets.
When the original 1934 marker was dedicated, the ceremony was attended by local school children. This will occur again with classes from the Cabrillo Elementary School.
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Preceding based on material provided by La Playa Trail Association