Stride StoriesRunning tour · San Diego
Old Town San Diego
0.9 mi run
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The stories on this route
Junipero Serra Museum
Look up at the crest: the white Serra Museum, with its tower. It went up in 1929, and it isn't the presidio. The real story is in front of it, in those low grass-covered mounds.
Old Town Plaza and Casa de Estudillo
Look across the open green square, ringed by low adobes. For more than a century, Old Town was San Diego. The town's main buildings once stood around this plaza, and the streets on its four sides follow an older, larger square. On July 29, 1846, Captain Samuel F.
Mason Street School
Look at the small, plain wooden schoolhouse, one room inside. Built in 1865, it was the first public school built in San Diego County. Its first teacher, Mary Chase Walker, taught 35 pupils, aged 4 to 17, in that single room, for $65 a month.
Whaley House
Look at the two-story red-brick house with the white columned porch. Thomas Whaley built it in the 1850s, as a home and a store, with bricks from his own brickyard nearby. A prediction quoted in the federal buildings survey said it 'will be the handsomest and most convenient and comfortable place ...
El Campo Santo
Look at the old headstones behind the wall, right beside the road. This is El Campo Santo, San Diego's first Catholic cemetery.
Stories researched October 2026 · every fact checked against a source
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