First San Diego Courthouse is one of many preserved or recreated historic structures within Old Town San Diego State Park, originally designed as a town hall building for the city following the arrival of the Mormon Battalion to the region in 1847. Throughout the mid-19th century, the building served as the city's courthouse, polling place, church, and educational building before it was destroyed in a fire in 1872. In 1992, the building was reconstructed by the First San Diego Courthouse Association for use as a public living history museum. The free-admission museum preserves a variety of artifacts related to the city's early civic history, including recreated court and sheriff's offices and a recreated jail cell.
2733 San Diego Ave, San Diego, CA 92110, Phone: 619-220-5422
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