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1972 to 1981. -City purchases the Knox Hotel and moves it to 280 North Magnolia to become the historical focus of the City of El Cajon in 1972. -First meeting of the El Cajon Historical Society in 1973. -Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug establish world famous Taylor Guitars in 1974.
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Browse through these historical archives and enjoy learning...
- History
Browse through these historical archives and enjoy learning about El Cajon and get a glimpse into what the City looked like in its early days. From the Corona Hotel at Main & Magnolia in the early 1900s, to the accelerated growth which took place after World War II, to the men, women, and families who called this wonderful place home and have ...
Brief History of El Cajon. Although the history of El Cajon can be traced back to the days of the dinosaur, the modern history begins circa 1869 with Issac Lankershiem when he purchased the roughly 47,000-acre Rancho El Cajon from Miguel Pedrorena.
El Cajon takes its name from Rancho El Cajón, which was owned by the family of Don Miguel de Pedrorena, a Californio ranchero and signer of the California Constitution. El Cajón, Spanish for "the box", was first recorded on September 10, 1821, as an alternative name for sitio rancho Santa Mónica to describe the "boxed-in" nature of the ...
The arrival of Spanish Catholic missionaries at San Diego Bay in 1769 marked the beginning of recorded history in Southern California. In 1868, Isaac Lankershim purchased the El Cajon Rancho from the Pedroarena family and by 1869 the ‘settler’ era in the El Cajon Valley began.
1 lip 1988 · These anecdotes, stories, and other bits of information are strung together chronologically on a rather thin and sometimes not quite factual framework of local history. The book begins with several interesting paragraphs about El Cajon geology and ends with a chapter about the 1980s.
El Cajon Postal History: 1878 - 1971. History of the El Cajon Cemetery, Monument Hill,and Flinn Springs Cemetery. A Brief History of the Schools of the El Cajon Valley. The Asher-Vacher Story. The Story of the Uri Hill Family in Early El Cajon. Frank Patterson, Freelance Photographer. Historical Data on the City of El Cajon
