OB Historical Society Presents
Did you know that Shelter Island, which we are all familiar with, started out as a sandbar and a shifting shoal that was considered to be a navigational hazard? The Island was nearly dredged out of existence before it was ever connected to Point Loma.
Please join the Ocean Beach Historical Society as Eric DuVall presents Picnic on the Island, the story of Shelter Island, Thursday, September 17, at 7:00 pm – OB Joyfull, 1984 Sunset Cliffs Blvd in Ocean Beach.
OBHS lectures are always FREE, please join us!
Not sure I can make your fascinating tale of Shelter Island, but wanted to add a footnote that the year I began searching for the lost Spanish Fort on Ballast Point and it made the 1982 newspapers, my phone rang off the hook with reports of lost Spanish cannons and cannon balls. For weeks, I drove over to houses in Point Loma to hear stories about rumored cannons found by dredges between Ballast Point and the San Diego Yacht Club. I also was shown several dozen “cannnon balls” that usually had threaded screw holes where they had actually been attached to cast iron fences. However, later in the Summer of 1982, my archaeology field crew actually discovered the ruins of the 1796 Spanish cannon fort, a small 3-pound brass cannon ball and a 9-pound American Civil War cannon ball that actually used used by “El Juniter” the nick-name for the Civil War cannot shipped to San Diego in 1900 to fire the Evening Salute followed by Taps.