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Italian immigrants in Monterey and Chinese immigrants in Pacific Grove, the fishing industry flourished. By the 1930s canneries lined the northern shore of the Peninsula.
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the village was inundated with musicians, writers, painters other artists turning to the established artist colony after the bay city was destroyed. The new residents were offered home lots - ten dollars down, little or no interest, and whatever they could pay on a monthly basis. In 1907 the town's
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Pacific Grove Retreat to rest and meditate. The initial meeting of the Pacific Coast branch of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle was held in Pacific Grove in June 1879. Modelled after the Methodist Sunday school teachers’ training camp established in 1874 at Lake
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Monterey Peninsula and instead primarily travels inland on the eastern side of the area as a freeway.
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Pacific Grove owned by his father, Ernest, who was Monterey County Treasurer. The cottage still stands on a quiet side street, without any plaque or special sign, virtually overlooked by most Steinbeck fans. In Steinbeck's book
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wandered into the deserted campgrounds: "I have never been in any place so dreamlike. Indeed, it was not so much like a deserted town as like a scene upon the stage by daylight, and with no one on the boards." Today,
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Salinas Valley Groundwater Basin. The California state water board originally set a deadline of December 31, 2016 to reduce pumping from the
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was originally designed as a local excursion for visitors to the Del Monte, in which they could take in the historic sights of
Monterey and Pacific Grove and the scenery of what would become Pebble Beach.
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school in both Europe and the United States were seeking an outdoor venue which had natural beauty, so that
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first cultural center and theatre, the Carmel Arts and Crafts Clubhouse, was built. Poets Austin and Sterling performed their "private theatricals" there.
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1927:Monterey Motorsports Reunion
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2436:Poppy Hills Golf Course
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1829:Pebble Beach Golf Links
1575:House of the Four Winds
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408:Ocean Grove, New Jersey
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2377:Laguna Seca Golf Ranch
2346:The Preserve Golf Club
1922:Monterey Jazz Festival
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1600:Samuel M. Black House
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1869:Golden State Theatre
1595:Point Sur Lighthouse
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335:Arthur Frank Mathews
295:Mexican–American War
249:Presidio of Monterey
206:Monterey, California
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