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Marriage Place of Ramona

The book

Ramona

by Helen Hunt Jackson was published in

1884. Ramona is the story of an orphan who was the

daughter of a white man and an Indian woman. She was

raised by a foster mother who kept her background secret.

Ramona falls in love with an Indian named Alessandro and

is married to him by Father Gaspara in San Diego.

The card

‟

s message reads,

“

Ramona

‟

s Marriage Place and

Flag Monument, marking the spot where the U. S. Flag was

first raised in Southern California, in 1846, San Diego, Cal.

”