(Click on picture to enlarge) Sometimes, the most interesting
discoveries made in history are made by accident. The story of
how the SPBSLP came to discover site SLP-TS-2, is a fascinating
one. It is the site we have identified as the location of the
San Pasqual Indian Village during the Battle of San Pasqual.
Just a few weeks from his 21st birthday, a young Scottish
immigrant named Philip Crosthwaite found himself fighting in the
Battle at San Pasqual on December 6, 1846. Crosthwaite was one
of the volunteers in Captain Gillespie's group that had met up
with General Kearny and the Dragoons prior to the battle. As
soon as the war was won with Mexico, Crosthwaite remained and
settled in the area. He lived for some time in Poway (not far
from San Pasqual) and later, even became the Sheriff of San
Diego before finally retiring down in Baja, Mexico in the town
that is today called Rosorita Beach. By 1897, the Battle of San
Pasqual was fading into obscurity and San Diego began to take a
renewed interest in this hi