El Presidio Park

On Aug. 20, 1775, Lt. Col. Hugo O'Connor of the Royal Spanish Army selected the site for a new frontier presidio and this park is the southern half of that Presidio, the "Plaza de las Armas". The Park has many fountains, sculptures and plaques. There is a monument to the Mormon Battalion. A large bronze plaque is mounted in dark stone quarried from Sentinel Peak.

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