1880s 1886 Natividad Medical Center opens as first public hospital in California Winemakers and distillers of California list 13 official winegrowers in the county WHEN THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD, A PROJECT connecting eastern railways to the Pacific coast for the first time, was completed in 1869, the laborers for the railroad were immediately left without a job or a home. Many of these workers eventually joined with the established Point Alones Chinese fishing village in present-day Pacific Grove. These families were the first to understand the untapped potential for commercial fishing on Monterey Bay and had been shipping the bay’s abundant abalone to San Francisco for export to China years before the railway was completed. The Chinese endured many, sometimes suspicious, fires to their fishing village and after a particularly devastating blaze in 1906, the fishing village was prohibited from being rebuilt, ending the Chinese fishing tradition on Monterey Bay after 50 years. Courtesy of the Monterey County Historical Society; Pat Hathaway Collection Courtesy of the Monterey County Historical Society; Pat Hathaway Collection 1880 Hotel Del Monte opens—considered by many to be the beginning of Monterey County’s tourism future 1884 Dr. May Gydison’s female-focused medical practice begins in Salinas 1889 August 1: Point Sur Lighthouse first lit
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