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Bookmark or Share- El Cajon, California - WikipediaEl Cajon (/ ɛl kəˈhoʊn / el kə-HOHN, Latin American Spanish: [el kaˈxon]; Spanish: El Cajón, [6] meaning "the box") is a city in San Diego County, California, United States, 17 mi (27 km) east of downtown San Diego.
- El Cajon Historical Society.....In the early part of the nineteenth century the explorations of the mission padres for pasture land led them to El Cajon Valley (The Box). The surrounding foothills were a barrier to straying cattle as well as a watershed to gather the sparse rainfall for verdant grasslands along the valley floor.
- El Cajon Historical Timeline | El Cajon, CA - El Cajon, California-First “Big Freeze” occurred January 5, 1913 when El Cajon residents awoke to a chilly 11 degrees, an all-time low for the Valley. -First street lights were established by the Board of Trustees, with 19 lights in 1914. -First cement sidewalks and curbs are installed on Main Street in 1917. -Fourteen inches of rain fell and flooded much of El Cajon.
- El Cajon, California, 1900 - San Diego History CenterIn the year 1900, the quiet township of El Cajon, California typified an agrarian, middle class, politically conservative community, of northern European origins. It was as if a whole town from Nebraska or Illinois had moved to this agricultural suburb of San Diego.
- El Cajon Stories | El Cajon, CA - El Cajon, CaliforniaWhat was in El Cajon before Parkway Plaza? Castle Rock Ranch! The Ashers were among the American families who arrived in Old Town in 1869. Josephus Asher worked in San Diego for the U.S. Government Customs Division, as he had also done in San Francisco.
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