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With the help of the El Cajon Historical Society, this record has been preserved through photos and stories that have captured the evolution of El Cajon from before its incorporation as a City in 1912, through today.
The KNOX HOUSE MUSEUM is the first commercial building in El Cajon, erected eleven years after the end of the Civil War. It is the original portion of the hotel that Amaziah Lord Knox built in 1876 near what is now the southwest corner of Main Street and Magnolia Avenue.
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 ...
Below is some information from a list compiled by former Cajon Valley School District Superintendent, John Montgomery and El Cajon’s first historian, Hazel Sperry. Their list appeared in the Californian insert on October 14, 1987 for the City of El Cajon’s 75th Anniversary of Incorporation ... Read More....
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.
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.
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.
