1903 Map of La Jolla

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Old Town and North San Diego serve as the historical anchors of this coastal landscape, which was surveyed just after the turn of the century. The coastal corridor is defined by the Southern California R. R. Surf Line, which connects small rail-dependent settlements like Delmar, Sorrento, and Morena before skirting the edge of Mission Bay. In this era, the inland mesa and canyon country remained largely undeveloped, marked only by scattered outposts such as Miramar, Lindavista, and Merton.