Loma Portal Marker

Location

Southwest corner of Rosecrans & Lytton

Status of the Marker

The monument has been lost.

The Second Monument for the
La Playa Trail

The second monument was dedicated on Saturday, January 27, 1934, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the southwest corner of Lytton. Lytton was the "Old Rock Trail" leading into present day Chatsworth Boulevard from Old Town to Ocean Beach.

Cornelia Plaiseter, Chairman of the Committee for Marking and Planting La Playa Trail directed the program and served as Mistress of Ceremonies. Senator Leroy A. Wright, presented a tribute to former Mayor Forward, the elder Forward's granddaughter, Miss Adele Lois Forward, the daughter of Frank Forward, unveiled the monument. A mission olive tree was planted near the monument. The marker was dedicated to former Mayor John Ferree Forward and Mrs. Ella Dillon Forward. The Forward family underwrote the costs of the marker.

During the 1920's the Forward family's Union Title & Trust Company started organizing and collecting historical photographs and memorabilia. The photographic collection consist of about 150,000 negatives dealing with San Diego history. In 1979, when the San diego Historical society moved to its current location in the Casa de Balboa the 150,000-item collection was donated to them. Today the Union-Title collection is the largest of the five core collections comprising the Society's photographic archive.

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