Historic Places with Elsa Sevilla: California's History

Lost Treasures

11/21/2011 | 26m 16s

On this episode, Host Elsa Sevilla searches for "Lost Treasures" from the late 1800s. Explore Alonzo Horton's Banker's Hill Mansion and San Diego State University's birthplace at the San Diego Normal School in University Heights. Find out what downtown's Nob Hill looked like during the ten-decade land boom of the 1880s and learn why there was a cluster of Mansions in a six-block radius.

Aired: 11/21/11 | Rating: NR

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