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Portola-Crespi Monument

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In the winter of 1769, a Spanish expedition searching for Monterey Bay under Don Gaspar de Portola and Father Juan Crespi erected a cross on or near this site and left a message that the land expedition was returning to San Diego on December 9, 1769, for lack of provisions.
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