South San Diego
| South San Diego | |
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| Neighborhood of San Diego | |
 South San Diego
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| Coordinates: 32°33′18″N 117°02′40″W / 32.5549°N 117.044306°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | San Diego |
| City | San Diego |
South San Diego is a district within the City of San Diego, and is in the larger South Bay region of southwestern San Diego County, California.
Before the arrival of the Spanish explorers, area of South San Diego was inhabited by the Kumeyaay people. The Kumeyaay, also later known as the Diegueño, traveled the region this is evidenced by the shallow depressions in boulders that were used for grinding acorn into meal, that are found throughout the area.
John J. Montgomery achieved the first controlled flight with a heavier-than-air flying machine in the United States when he successfully flew three glider aircraft designed in the period 1883-1886 from Otay Mesa. A monument to his historic flights is known as Silver Wing Park, located on Coronado Avenue, just east of Beyer Boulevard. The Interstate 5 freeway in this region was later named the John J. Montgomery Freeway in his honor.
In 1957, the area comprising South San Diego was annexed by the City of San Diego, from unincorporated San Diego County.
On July 18, 1984, in an event known as the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre, James Oliver Huberty, a 41-year-old former welder from Canton, Ohio, committed a mass-murder of 21 people inside of a McDonald's restaurant in San Ysidro. The McDonald's site was razed in 1985. The site is now home to a Southwestern College satellite campus.
South San Diego is within the southern area of the City of San Diego, in far southwestern San Diego County. Land-wise, it is physically separated on land from the rest of the city of San Diego by the cities of National City and Chula Vista. However it and the rest of San Diego are connected by a 400-foot (120 m)-wide city boundary line that runs through San Diego Bay, thus making it possible to travel (by water only) between central San Diego and South San Diego without ever leaving the city limits.
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