New Water Map Washes Away An Urban Legend : NPR - 1 views
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Garth Holman on 31 Oct 11Or What a Historian does: search for truth
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That, Richard says, is impossible. He pulls out a topographical map and points to the location of the marker
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He says the story of the lagoon can be traced back to a single paragraph, written by the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza, in March 1776
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dated June 29, 1776. According to legend, that's when Spanish settlers supposedly set up camp on the shores of a lake called Laguna Dolores – Dolores Lagoon