Shellmound Memorial - Ohlone Memorial Walkway -- Plague

Colonizers and settlers who came to California in the 1700s and 1800s devastated the native population by bringing diseases which had never affected their communities before. After witnessing the death of their loved ones, many remaining Ohlone people fled the area, leaving behind the shellmounds that marked the place where thriving villages had once stood. The Spanish who settled in the area, also made sport of the local bears and chained them and forced them to fight.