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Morro Bay, CA - History
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Welcome to the Morro Bay Home page. The Morro Bay Home page provides as much information as possible on Morro Bay. Knowing Morro Bay’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Morro Bay’s Home page, you will also find Morro Bay’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Morro Bay has a population of 10592. 47.2% of Morro Bay’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.8 are female. 45.2% of Morro Bay is married and 61.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $648,031, and the average rent is $1,579. Household median income in Morro Bay is $73,864, and the individual median income is $38,682. Morro Bay’s Ethnic is the following: White(85.7%), Hispanic(13%), Asian(5.5%), Multiple(4.7%), Other(3.7%), Native(0.2%), Black(0.1%).
The prehistory of Morro Bay relates to Chumash settlement, particularly near the mouth of Morro Creek. At least as early as the Millingstone Horizon thousands of years before present, there was an extensive settlement along the banks and terraces above Morro Creek. A tribal site on present-day Morro Bay was named tsɨtqawɨ, Obispeño for "Place of the Dogs".The first European land exploration of Alta California, the Spanish Portolá expedition, came down Los Osos Valley and camped near today's Morro Bay on September 8, 1769.
Franciscan missionary and expedition member Juan Crespí noted in his diary that "we saw a great rock in the form of a round morro".The first recorded Filipinos to visit America arrived at Morro Bay on October 18, 1587, from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza; one of whom was killed by local Native Americans while scouting ahead.While governed by Mexico, large land grants split the surrounding area into cattle and dairy ranchos.
These ranchos needed shipping to bring in dry goods and to carry their crops, animals, and other farm products to cities. The town of Morro Bay was founded by Franklin Riley in 1870 as a port for the export of dairy and ranch products. He was instrumental in the building of a wharf which has now become the Embarcadero.
During the 1870s, schooners could often be seen at the Embarcadero picking up wool, potatoes, barley, and dairy products.A subspecies of butterfly, the "Morro Bay Blue" or " Morro Blue" (Icaricia icarioides moroensis) was first found at Morro beach, by the entomologist Robert F. Sternitzky, in June 1929.During World War II, there was a U.S.
Navy base, Amphibious Training Base Morro Bay on the north side of Morro Rock where sailors were trained to operate LCVPs. The breakwater on the southwest side of the Rock was built in 1944–45 to protect the LCVPs entering and leaving the harbor. Soldiers from Camp San Luis Obispo would come to Morro Bay and practice loading into the LCVPs.
Many of those men were at Normandy on D-Day. In the 1940s, Morro Bay developed an abalone fishing industry; it peaked in 1957, and stocks of abalone have declined significantly due to overfishing. Halibut, sole, rockfish, albacore, and many other species are still caught by both commercial and sport vessels.
In addition, oysters are aquacultured in the shallow back bay. The Pacific Gas and Electric Company built the Morro Bay Power Plant in the early 1950s which created jobs and increased the tax base. The city incorporated in 1964.
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