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Richard Henry Dana Branch, closed and vacant, May 2008
The point and city of Dana Point, California, located on the Pacific coast about halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, are named for him, and a reproduction of the brig Pilgrim was sailed around Cape Horn and permanently placed on display there for the Ocean Institute.
Several schools are named in his honor:
Richard Henry Dana Elementary School (Dana Point, California), in Dana Point, California.
Richard Henry Dana Middle School, in Arcadia, California.
Dana Middle School in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego, California.
Richard Henry Dana Middle School (Hawthorne, California) [16]
Dana Middle School (San Pedro)[17]
A roadway in Coronado, California is named in his Honor. R.H. Dana Place looks across the entry to San Diego Bay towards where Richard Henry Dana, a young man of only 20 years, first set foot at San Diego, California in 1834. There he worked and lived in a large curing house processing hides which would be shipped to Boston and made into leather goods. It was this same view that inspired the Coronado City Council, in January 1931, to rename what was then Ada Place, as R.H. Dana Place, honoring Dana, and recognizing his accomplishments, and connection to San Diego and Coronado.[18]
The R.H. Dana Patio sits along R.H. Dana Place in Coronado, California. This garden patio at Coronado Plaza is dedicated to Richard Henry Dana and was developed by the Dan McGeorge Gallery.
The Richard Henry Dana Branch Library in Los Angeles was named after hi