The Old Mission Dam in Mission Gorge was begun around 1803,
and probably wasn't finished until around 1815. I bicycled back from Santee through the gorge today, and when I got to the ruins of the old dam, I sat and ate my lunch... and I let my imagination run away... hundreds of Indians from villages and from the San Diego Mission were there... working hard... speakingSpanish and Kumeyaay and a
mixture of the two... Beautiful.