Editing Monterey, California (section)

=== American period ===
[[File:Batalla_de_Monterey.jpg|thumb|The 1846 [[Battle of Monterey]], part of the [[Conquest of California|U.S. conquest of California]], resulted in American forces capturing the capital of Mexican California.]]
[[Colton Hall]], built in 1849 by [[Walter Colton]], originally served as both a public school and a government meeting place. It hosted the [[California Constitutional Conventions|1849 Constitutional Convention]], where American and [[Californio]] delegates drafted the first [[Constitution of California]], in both English and Spanish.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historicmonterey.org/?p=colton_hall |title=Colton Hall |access-date= March 14, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071005154625/http://www.historicmonterey.org/?p=colton_hall |archive-date= October 5, 2007 |url-status= live }}</ref>

Monterey hosted California's first constitutional convention in 1849, which composed the documents necessary to apply to the United States for [[statehood]]. Today Colton Hall houses a small museum, while adjacent buildings serve as the seat of local government, and the Monterey post office (opened in 1849).<ref name=CGN />

Pioneer [[Francis Doud]] built [[Doud House]] in the 1860s, situated at the present-day 117 Van Buren Street. The house is one of the earliest and most well-preserved examples of an early wood frame residences in Monterey.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5t1nf579/entire_text/|title=Finding aid of the Francis Doud Papers C058832|work=Online Archive California |access-date=August 3, 2023}}</ref> Monterey was incorporated in 1890.<ref name=CGN />
[[File:Oldest known image of Colton Hall (c. 1858) (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|[[Colton Hall]] hosted the [[California Constitutional Conventions|1849 Constitutional Convention]], which drafted the [[Constitution of California]].]]
[[Thomas Albert Work]] built several of the buildings in Monterey, including the three-story Del Mar hotel in 1895, at the corner of Sixteenth, and in 1900, bought into the First National Bank in Monterey, acquiring it in 1906. He was president of the bank for more than 20 years.<ref>{{cite book|last=Seavey|first= Kent |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6B_wTaed_-UC&q=%22T.%20A.%20Work%22 |title=Pacific Grove |work=Arcadia|place= Pacific Grove, California|date=2005|pages=81–88|isbn= 9780738529646 |access-date=January 20, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93053820/t-a-work/ |title= T. A. Work Starts Life As Driver Of Milk Wagon |work=Salinas Morning Post|place=Salinas, California|date=December 19, 1930|page=1|access-date=January 20, 2022}}</ref>

Monterey had long been famous for the abundant fishery in Monterey Bay. That changed in the 1950s when the local fishery business collapsed due to [[overfishing]]. A few of the old fishermen's cabins from the early 20th century have been preserved as they originally stood along [[Cannery Row]].

The city has a noteworthy history as a center for California painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Such painters as [[Arthur Frank Mathews]], [[Armin Hansen]], [[Xavier Martinez]], [[Rowena Meeks Abdy]] and [[Percy Gray]] lived or visited to pursue painting in the style of either [[En plein air]] or [[Tonalism]].
[[File:Cannery Row (1938).jpg|thumb|[[Cannery Row]] was once one of the most productive fish canning hubs in the world, until its collapse in the 1950s due to overfishing.]]
Many noted authors have also lived in and around Monterey, including [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], [[John Steinbeck]], [[Ed Ricketts]], [[Robinson Jeffers]], [[Robert A. Heinlein]], and [[Henry Miller]].

More recently, Monterey has been recognized for its significant involvement in post-secondary learning of languages other than English and its major role in delivering translation and interpretation services around the world. In November 1995, California Governor [[Pete Wilson]] proclaimed Monterey "the Language Capital of the World".<ref name="lcow" />

On June 7, 2021, the [[macOS Monterey]] operating system was presented at Apple's [[Worldwide Developers Conference]] (WWDC2021) and named after the Monterey region.