Santo Domingo. 1956. "A dusty, windswept, bleak collection of shacks, Santo Domingo is at the northern edge of an important farming area developed since 1940."

San Luis Gonzaga. 1957. "One of the original Jesuit missions; an attractive little oasis in the midst of some of the most barren and forbidding country in the peninsula. It consists of a grove of date and fan palms below a tiny spring. The mission garden, irrigated by a masonry dam, produces figs, oranges, grapes, mangos, and other fruits and vegetables. There is a small stone church built by Padre Baegert in the 1750's, still in good condition."

El Crucero (Villa Constitución). 1957. "A bustling new supply center for the agricultural colonies in the vicinity."

La Paz. 1949 & 1957. "La Paz is the capital and largest town of the Territorio Sur, comprising the southern half of Baja California. It is attractively spread out on a series of low bluffs along the shallow Ensenada de los Aripes, protected from the open Gulf by a long sandspit known as El Mogote, which comes to an end just opposite the town. Although in a way it is a typical Mexican provincial capital, La Paz has an atmosphere all its own... It was now until 1720 that a mission, Nuestra Señora del Pilar de la Paz, was founded here by the Jesuit Padres Jaime Bravo and Juan de Ugarte... The town was occupied by American troops during the Mexican War, and again by the filibuster William Walker in 1853."