Landmark information
- Location:
End of Rosecrans St, where the landmark plaques are in a half-circle, US Navy Sub Base, Point Loma - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
1/28/2000 - Date Most Recently Visited:
1/28/2000 - GPS Coordinates:
N 32 41.017, W 117 14.208
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Ballast Point Whaling Station Site
Late in 1857, the three Johnson Brothers and the twin Packard brothers came to this site to survey possibilities for a station to "try out" or extract whale oil. Their operations began the next year. In 1869 the U.S. government acquired the property for Fort Rosecrans and in 1873 whaling operations at Ballast Point ended.