In the decades following the historic voyage of Christopher Columbus to America in 1492, Mexico underwent much exploration and development – not to mention financial exploitation – by conquistadors under the aegis of the Kingdom of Spain. But Spanish and other European explorers knew very little about the lands along the coast north of Mexico.Continue reading “Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo explored the California coastline in the 1500s”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
