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City to decide on heritage status for Mission Hills palms planted by Kate Sessions

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Kate O. Sessions is known as the Mother of Balboa Park, but it would not be incorrect for her also to be known as the Mother of Mission Hills (or at least a mother alongside Sarah Johnston Cox who built the first home in the area). After all, Sessions founded San Diego’s first commercial nursery there in 1910, at one point owned much of the real estate, and was influential in convincing John D. Spreckels to bring a streetcar out along Fort Stock…

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Mission Hills Historic Trees in Peril

By Janet O'Dea / SOHO Newsletter / March-April 2025 The City of San Diego Community Forest Advisory Board (CFAB) held a crucial meeting regarding the designation of heritage trees along Sunset Boulevard in on Hills in February 2025. It was the latest chapter in an ongoing battle to preserve the iconic trees planted by pioneering nurserywoman Kate Sessions that have defined the neighborhood for generations. In 2009, after the establishment of the…

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