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Cannery Cannery Row Cannery Cannery Row Cannery memorial sculptures throughout throughout sculptures memorial There are several bronze bronze several are There B 21 20 19 18 16 and red abalone. abalone. red and Aquarium 10-12 chameleon rockfish, chinook salmon salmon chinook rockfish, chameleon Bay Bay B M R be harvested, others included squid, squid, included others harvested, be Monterey sardines were the most noted fish to to fish noted most the were sardines 13-15 processed on Cannery Row. Although Although Row. Cannery on processed R harvested from Monterey Bay and and Bay Monterey from harvested marine species that were commercially commercially were that species marine describe and illustrate the five principal principal five the illustrate and describe $ Parking Garage are plaques that that plaques are Garage Parking Displayed outside the City of Monterey Monterey of City the outside Displayed Cannery Row Cannery Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Marine National Bay Monterey More to Explore to More Timeline A Brief History 3000 BCE to 1769-The native people of the Monterey It was an anonymous writer for the local region, the Rumsien Ohlone, build small villages along the Monterey paper who, in 1919, first coined the Monterey waterfront and fish the bay in boats made of tule, term “Cannery Row” when referencing what becoming Monterey’s first commercial fishermen. They was then called Ocean View Boulevard for a story about Monterey’s sardine industry. maintain a complex society dependent on fishing and hunting. Even before there was a Cannery Row, 1542-Explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sights the Bahia de etting ere Walking Tour people lived and worked in this place, los Pinos, later named Point of Pines (Point Pinos) and rounds G H making a living by fishing Monterey Bay. 1 MARINA the Cannery Row area, entering Monterey Bay. The first real “commercial” fishermen were the Rumsien Ohlone, the native people of 1602-Sebastian Vizcaíno lands at Monterey Bay in search of SEASIDE Monterey. Almost five thousand years ago, a harbor for Spanish galleons and claims California for Spain. 101 this peaceful community harvested abalone along the coastline and fished for sardines, 1818-French privateer and SALINAS anchovies and rockfishes in the bay, using Argentinean revolutionary MONTEREY 68 small boats made of tule (a long reed that Hipólito Bouchard attacks, grows throughout the Monterey Peninsula). The Rumsien people were also the first divers in the bay, as proven by evidence uncovered burns and briefly seizes CARMEL Monterey. It is believed in ancient burial sites. Some of the males had what is known as “surfer’s ear,” a bony growth that closes the ear opening, indicating that Bouchard landed his they spent a lot of time in the cold waters of Monterey Bay. longboats on what is now From Highway 1 North McAbee Beach. Take Highway 1 south to Monterey. Look for the Monterey The first real cannery, The Pacific Mutual Fish Company, was Bay Aquarium sign, and exit onto Fremont Street. Follow the owned and operated by Otosaburo Noda, a Japanese businessman. 1850s-On September 9, 1850, California enters the Union brown directional signs on Fremont to Camino El Estero, and By 1896, he had developed Monterey’s first Japanese colony right as the 31st state. Sometime in the early 1850s, a small group turn right. Just past the Visitor Information Center, turn left on on the row. of Chinese fishermen and their families begin arriving in Del Monte Avenue and continue (in the right two lanes) past the Monterey area. They set up a fishing village that spreads Fisherman’s Wharf, then through the tunnel to Foam Street. Soon other canners followed, and the street bustled with workers between the current site of Hopkins Marine Lab and the Follow the brown directional signs to Cannery Row parking who had roots from all over of the world. Eventually, these workers were responsible for making Monterey the “Sardine Capital of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Portuguese whalers marooned in and the Aquarium. World.” At its height, there were 19 canneries and reduction plants, San Francisco because of the California Gold Rush establish employing hundreds of workers and bringing in millions of dollars whaling stations on Monterey Bay, including one along From Highway 1 South to the local economy. Cannery Row. Exit Highway 1 at Highway 68 West / Pacific Grove. Continue 4 miles to David Avenue, then turn right and follow David Avenue During the Great Depression, the 1874-In October of 1874, the Monterey & Salinas Valley to the end. You’ll see the Aquarium and signs for parking on demand for sardines grew because Railroad Company begins operating one of the earliest Cannery Row. they were a source of healthy narrow- gauge railroads in T AKE A WALK BACK IN TIME and inexpensive food. The boats California. Now fishermen From Route 68 West got bigger, and more and more have a way to get fresh fish Exit Highway 68 to Highway 1 south. Stay in the right lane after sardines were pursed into the nets. Interpretive Signs Cheap labor was available to put to large markets, like San merging, and exit immediately onto Fremont Street. Follow the brown directional signs on Fremont to Camino El Estero, and them into cans or grind them for Francisco. Other fishermen Murals chicken feed. Everyone thought it begin to arrive to fish, turn right. Just past the Visitor Information Center, turn left on would last forever-almost everyone. Scientists from the California primarily for rockfish. Del Monte Avenue and continue (in the right two lanes) past Bronze Statues Department of Fish and Game, who had been monitoring the Fisherman’s Wharf, then through the tunnel to Foam Street. Monterey sardine fishery from the beginning, had seen early 1880—The Southern Pacific Follow the brown directional signs to Cannery Row parking warning signs and tried to tell an indifferent industry. When the Railroad buys the Monterey & Salinas Valley Railroad and and the Aquarium. Scavenger Hunt fishery finally did collapse, everyone wanted to know, “Where did all the sardines go?” The answer is we really don’t know. Some say builds the luxurious Hotel del Monte, “Queen of American PRODUCED BY: CANNERY ROW BUSINESS ASSOCIATION Watering Places.” TIMELINE: TIM THOMAS, FISHERIES HISTORIAN it was overfishing. Others say it was environmental. It was probably CANNERY LABELS AND TEXT: KENT SEAVEY, HISTORIC CONSULTANT both. Today, the California sardine industry is fully recovered, and CONTINUED INSIDE HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHY: MONTEREY PUBLIC LIBRARY, CALIFORNIA HISTORY ROOM fishermen are catching sardines in the Monterey Bay once again. readying their boat for fishing. for boat their readying Foam Street Foam Foam Street Foam Beach depicts two Chinese fishermen fishermen Chinese two depicts Beach Downtown Monterey Downtown John Cerney. A fourth mural on McAbee McAbee on mural fourth A Cerney. John P P white photographs by Salinas muralist muralist Salinas by photographs white P murals were created from black and and black from created were murals Recreation Trail Recreation engaged in various activities. The The activities. various in engaged P murals of Monterey’s cannery workers workers cannery Monterey’s of murals 24 25 M three, full-color, larger-than-life-size larger-than-life-size full-color, three, P Grove $ R Along the recreational trail, there are are there trail, recreational the Along ¢ ¢ Pacific B role in shaping the history of Cannery Row. Cannery of history the shaping in role F F 1 Reeside Avenue Reeside Avenue Drake Avenue McClellan AvenueHoffman Avenue Prescott Avenue Irving Avenue David figures memorialize the people who have played an integral integral an played have who people the memorialize figures Cannery Row Cannery Wave Street Wave Steven White. Nine life-size life-size Nine White. Steven B 23 Memorial, created by Sculptor Sculptor by created Memorial, 22 P P P R prominent, the Cannery Row Row Cannery the prominent, 2 3 Plaza is the newest and most most and newest the is Plaza Recreation Trail Recreation Corsaut.