Old Monterey Foundation

Whalefest Monterey is being held virtually this year instead of in the Custom House Plaza and Old Fisherman's Wharf. Hope you can enjoy it virtually and thanks for sharing this poster, too!

We can always learn lots of interesting things about the City of Monterey in their informative quarterly City Focus Newsletter. Beautiful photos, too including this one from the Lower Presidio Historic Prka. Check it out at this link: https://conta.cc/34ax4xw

Come out and visit the Lower Presidio Historic Park and enjoy all of its improvements and historic interpretative signs!

The Monterey Harbor has a fascinating history! Here's a photo of a storm in 1943 before the Marina...

This is terrific - check it out! https://medium.com//celebrate-montereys-250th-birthday-wit

Beautiful Historic Monterey in bloom. The Custom House Plaza is located directly adjacent to Monterey's Old Fisherman's Wharf.

This is terrific - check it out! https://medium.com//celebrate-montereys-250th-birthday-wit

Due to the COVID-19 situation, we have postponed our 6th Annual Language Capital of the World Cultural Festival to Saturday, May 15, 2021. Please save the date for this wonderful festival!

FYI history lovers! The National Trust for Historic Preservation is making their annual Preservation Month entirely virtual for the first time. Starting May 1, Virtual Preservation Month will offer 31 days of rich and varied digital experiences at historic places that they hope will inspire, delight, and entertain people around the country as they come to know their workand the historic preservation movementin new and different ways. If you're interested, sign up. https://support.savingplaces.org/page/18506/subscribe/1

Beautiful wisteria at Casa Serrano in Historic Monterey! It's springtime!

The beautiful Santa Rosalia statue, the adopted patron saint of Monterey's Sicilian fisherman, sits adjacent to Monterey Old Fisherman's Wharf. She is especially dear to the people of Palermo for her role in fighting the plague in 1624...

April showers make the Lower Presidio Historic Park even more beautiful and green! Here's a glimpse of the historic stables - remember that the Buffalo Soldiers and Cavalry were stationed right up there!

Celebrating our fascinating City of Monterey history and highlighting elements of the Lower Presidio Historic Park! Learn more ...such as In 1846, Commodore John Drake Sloat captured Monterey and El Castillo at the beginning of the Mexican American War. The American/California period beginning in 1846, including the enactment of the first California Constitution in 1849 through the period that includes when Fort Mervine was a coastal defense and cavalry post.

It is times like this that we're so glad we installed ADA walking paths in the Lower Presidio Historic Park. Keep your social distance but it's a wonderful place to get some fresh air and learn more about history! Note our interpretive signs and ask your kids to study more on the Internet about our wonderful history of the City of Monterey!

Friends - please stay home unless you absolutely have to. You are encouraged to take walks however please be responsible These next two to three weeks are cruc...ial if we are going to stop the surge of cases. Monterey County is in good shape now and we want to keep it that way. Please share. Stay Healthy! See more

How about a stroll through Lower Presidio Historic Park to get your steps in? Also, enjoy a Lower Presidio Historic Park Walking Tour with historian Tim Thomas on March 21st and learn more about all of the fascinating stories of this area. Great story in the Monterey Herald!