San Deigo Historic Site 523 SAN DIEGO BARRACKS SITE

In the block bounded by Market, G, Kettner, and California Streets, between 1851and 1921, stood the San Diego Barracks, commemorated by a marker on Market Street.

Captain Nathaniel Lyons, of the 2nd U. S. Infantry, was persuade by men involvedin the development of New San Diego, to locate on their lands the QuartermasterDepot he had been sent to establish. At first called Post New San Diego, in 1879 the name was changed to San Diego Barracks, as Horton's Addition had becomethe center of population and affairs.

Not continuously used by the Army, the building also served as a church, a public meeting hall, a sheltered place for Indians to camp, and as New San Diego's firstschool. Sunday school was also held here.

Founded as a supply depot for troops on the frontier, the Barracks returned to the same category before being abandoned December 15, 1921, at which time it was a base for provisioning soldiers on the Mexican border. During theTwentieth Century it was a sub-post of Fort Rosecrans. The land was sold to the city in 1938.