San Deigo Historic Site 57 LA PUNTA DE LOS MUERTOS (DEAD MEN'S POINT)

This point, marked by a cairn and plaque on the southeast corner of Market Street and Pacific Boulevard, is now surrounded by filled-in lands. It is called Dead Man's Point because, in 1782, when the harbor was first surveyed,a number of men from the two ships assigned to the task died of scurvy, and were buried there. The name appeared on the map of San Diego made by Juan Pantoja y Arriaga, pilot of the ship La Princesa, of that expedition. It has been used ever since.