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unusual facts about Monterey, CA



Abronia umbellata

Originally described by the British botanist Aylmer Lambert, Abronia umbellata was collected in 1786 from Monterey, California by the gardner Jean Nicolas Collignon of the French La Pérouse expedition, which had stopped at the capitol of Alta California as part of a journey of scientific exploration spanning the Pacific Ocean.

Alemany Maze

Alemany, who in 1840 completed his studies in sacred theology in Rome at the College of St. Thomas, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, was consecrated Bishop of Monterey in California on June 30, 1850, at Rome, and was transferred July 29, 1853, to the See of San Francisco as its first archbishop.

Ali Ryerson

She has performed and toured worldwide with a wide range of artists including Billy Taylor, Kenny Barron, Stephane Grappelli, Frank Wess, Red Rodney, Laurindo Almeida, Art Farmer, Maxine Sullivan, Roy Haynes, and (as principal flautist with the Monterey Bay Symphony) with Luciano Pavarotti.

C. T. Singleton, Jr.

He was also on the advisory board of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; a director of the Monterey Foundation; and member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association; a lifetime director of the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies; and of the Retired Officers Association.

California State University, Monterey Bay

Students also enjoy going into downtown Monterey, which is a popular tourist destination, being home to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row and Old Fisherman's Wharf.

Camphora

Camphora, California, an unincorporated community in Monterey County, California

Carlos Vierra

Carlos Vierra was born and raised in Moss Landing, California near Monterey by his father, Portuguese sailor, Cato Vierra and his mother, Maria de Fratas.

Catherine L. Malone

From January 1995 to the September of the same year she was a scientific aide at the California Department of Fish and Game in Monterey, California, where she worked on a salmonid habitat restoration project, which was focused on habitat restoration of Salmonidae species.

Clyne Gardens

Glynn Vivian planted three notable trees still alive in front of the castle - one Wellingtonia 'Sequoiadendron giganteum' and two Monterey Cypress 'Cupressus macrocarpa', one a fastigiate form which is also one of the tallest recorded in Britain.

Conquest of California

The American Marines, sailors and militia easily took over the cities and ports of northern California; within days they controlled Monterey, San Francisco, Sonoma, Sutter's Fort in Sacramento and other small towns in Northern California.

Cookeville Railroad Depot

Although Crawford died shortly thereafter, his sons continued his work, and managed to extend the tracks to Monterey, at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau.

Eric Nave

Nave was eventually forced out of Monterey by Fabian, who apparently regarded him as a "security risk" – because he wanted to cooperate with the Army's Central Bureau.

Fight at Monterey Pass

Assuming that Ewell's corps wagon train was actually the main supply trains for Lee's army, Kilpatrick moved out aggressively at 10 a.m. on July 4, proceeding west on the Waynesboro-Emmitsburg Turnpike toward the village of Fountain Dale (just east of present-day Blue Ridge Summit on Pennsylvania Route 16) and Monterey Pass.

Five Joaquins Gang

On July 25, 1853, a group of Rangers encountered a band of armed Mexican men near Panoche Pass in San Benito County, 50 miles from Monterey.

Fran McKee

After attending the General Line School, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, in September 1957 she was appointed Personnel Officer at Naval Air Station Port Lyautey, Morocco.

Frank Day

Frank R. Day (1853–1899), entrepreneur and politician in Los Angeles and Monterey, California

Frederic Hsieh

In the early 1970s, he predicted that the then-predominantly Caucasian city of Monterey Park and the San Gabriel Valley would serve as an anchor for new ethnic Chinese immigrants as an alternative to the old Chinatown in Los Angeles, but it was immediately dismissed and brushed off as mere speculation at the time.

Gabilan

Gabilan, California, a former settlement in Monterey County, California

Gerard Caris

He studied at the Monterey Peninsula College, California, the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies and San José College (arts and humanities) subsequently at the University of California, Berkeley, a.o. with David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn In 1967 B. A. in Philosophy, in 1969 M.A. in arts .

Hermann

Herrmann Hall, the former Hotel Del Monte, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

John J. McGrath

In 1932 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat, defeating incumbent Arthur M. Free in the 8th district, which ran from San Mateo County south across Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties.

John Lowell Gardner II

Some of the ships included (ships are not linked): Arabia, Bunker Hill, California, Democrat, Duxbury, Eclipse, Gentleman, Grotius, Lenore, Lepanto, Lotos, Marquis de Somerulas, Mars, Monterey, Nabob, Napke, Naples, Pallas, Pioneer, Plant, Plato, Ruble, Sappho, Shawmut, St Paul, Sumatra, Thetis, Unicorn.

Khalid Maqbool

He is a graduate of the Command and Staff College Quetta, the National Defence College, Rawalpindi and the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, where he attended the Senior International Defense Management Course.

KION

KION-TV, a television station (channel 46 analog/32 digital) licensed to Monterey, California, United States

Kiss the Crystal Flake

Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear also includes a reference to the infamous Mexican patriot/bandit Joaquin Murrieta with the lyrics: "Were you out in Monterey/ In Joaquin Murrieta's day/ Adobe huts in the cypress groves/ Is where the rich man now builds his homes".

María Ruiz de Burton

Soon after the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848, Ruiz de Burton, her mother, and her brother moved the Monterey and became American citizens.

Meadows Field Airport

The more prominent field was at Sacramento and Monterey streets in East Bakersfield (at the time, primarily empty fields).

Montecito Heights, Los Angeles

Central to just about everything and known by the residents as the 'Wilderness in the City' Montecito Heights sits atop the Monterey Hills that divide the Los Angeles Basin from the San Gabriel Valley.

Monterey Coast Preparatory School

Monterey Coast Preparatory (MCP) Middle & High School is a private, independent middle & high school using a UDL-modified Universal Design for Learning curriculum for gifted & talented students, including those with learning differences such as ADHD, Dyslexia, and Asperger Syndrome.

Monterey, Massachusetts

On the state level, Monterey is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the Fourth Berkshire district, which covers southern Berkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County.

Neighborhoods in San Francisco

Balboa Terrace is a small residential neighborhood in southwestern San Francisco bounded by Junipero Serra Boulevard, Monterey Avenue, Aptos Avenue and Ocean Avenue along the southern edge of the exclusive St. Francis Wood development.

Otto von Sadovszky

The languages were or are spoken in an area from Monterey to Bodega Bay and Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley, and by 6,000 Mansi and 17,000 Khanty, east of the Urals.

Pamela Wu

Prior to joining KCRA 3, Wu worked as anchor and reporter at stations across Northern California, including KVIQ in Eureka, KION in Salinas/Monterey, and the KCRA 3 sister station in Salinas/Monterey, KSBW.

Paul D. Stroop

From 1948-1950, Stroop served as Executive Officer at the Navy's General Line School in Monterey, California, then again took up his own studies as a student at the National War College at Washington, D.C., in 1950-1951.

Presidio San Ignacio de Tubac

In 1775 and 1776, de Anza escorted 240 colonists from Horcasitas, Sonora, to Monterey, California, and then to San Francisco Bay, where he selected sites for the mission, presidio and settlement.

Robert S. Garnett

They funded a monument to Garnett, who had designed California's State Seal during his brief service at the Presidio in Monterey in 1849.

Robert V. Derrah

Lillian M. Rose house (1934), a Monterey architecture style house at 842 South Citrus Avenue in Mid-City.

Shake! Otis at Monterey

Otis at Monterey is a 1987 short film directed by D.A. Pennebaker documenting Otis Redding at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

Sparta Rock House

The main branch (roughly following the modern US-70N) continued northwestward to what is now Monterey, while a second branch (roughly following the modern US-70) proceeded westward to what is now Sparta.

SS Matsonia

SS Matsonia (1932), originally named the Monterey, then renamed in 1957, before being sold and becoming the Lurline and then the Britanis for Chandris Lines, operating as a cruise ship for the until 2000, when she was sold for scrap and sank on her way to Indian ship breakers.

SS Monterey

On 26 September 1946 the Monterey arrived at Bethlehem-Alameda Shipyard in Alameda, California for refitting and return to passenger service with Matson.

Tony Lagouranis

He was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and graduated from high school in 1987 in New York City, going on to study Ancient Greek as part of his degree program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Arabic at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.

Tresco Abbey Gardens

The first were mainly deciduous trees such as, elm (Ulmus sp), sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus), oak (Rubus sp) and poplar (Poplar sp), and later he planted Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) and Monterey pine (Pinus radiata) which are fast growing and suited to coastal conditions.

Tyringham, Massachusetts

Founded as Housatonic Township Number 1, the land which became Tyringham and Tyringham was first settled in 1735.

Vong Sarendy

In 1963, he left his post for a military fellowship in Monterey, California but departed following John F. Kennedy's assassination, 2 months before schedule.

Walter B. LaBerge

He also held several academic appointments, including Senior Researcher at the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Texas at Austin; visiting professor at the Defense Systems Management College at the Defense Acquisition University in Fort Belvoir, Virginia; and Visiting Professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

William May Garland

The Garland family built a summer home called Casa Ladera in Pebble Beach, California, and it was there he was stricken, and subsequently died in Monterey, California 26 Sep 1948, shortly before his 50th wedding anniversary.


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Marie D. Kassing

Marie D. Kassing is one of the founders of the Women's Crisis Center in Salinas, California, a founder of the National Organization for Women in Monterey, CA and has won the 1995 Outstanding Woman Honoree award in Monterey County, California.