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About
El Cajon
San Diego
Two historical names keynote the early development of the modern
commercial municipality of El Cajon - The Big Box Valley and The
Corners. Its growth is directly linked to its initial role as
the agrarian heartland and communications center of San Diego
County.
In the early part of the nineteenth century the explorations of
the mission padres for pasture land led them to El Cajon Valley.
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. For years the pasture lands
supported the cattle herds of the mission and its native Indian
converts.
With independence from Spain, the Spanish Dons began to cast
envious eyes on the vast holdings of the Roman Catholic
Missions. With secularization, California Governor Pio Pico in
1845 confiscated the lands of Mission San Diego de Alcala and
granted the eleven square leagues of El Cajon.
Valley to Dona Maria Antonio Estudillo, wife of Don Miguel de
Pedrorena, to repay a $500 government obligation. The grant
included generally the present communities of Lakeside, Santee,
Bostonia, Glenview, Johnstown, El Cajon, and part of Grossmont.
Recorded history affords scant evidence to establish a beginning
date for either a permanent Spanish or American community in the
valley. The Pedrorenas continued their residence in San Diego
and their absentee proprietorship did not foster any economic
development. Scattered homes of adobe construction were erected
in the area during the mid 19th century, but the permanency of
their occupancy is open to question. The establishment of a
school for six children in 1870 in a homestead at Park and
Magnolia offered conclusive proof that a permanent American
settlement had been established.
What were the key factors which shaped El Cajon's destiny?
First, there was a transfer of title from the permanent holdings
of the mission to the changing hands of the Pedrorenas and their
successors. This permitted the so-called highest and best use of
the land in commercial terms. Then there were the natural
corridors which made Main and Magnolia the crossroads from San
Diego to points east and to the gold mining operations in Julian
to the north. Third, there were the real estate developments
following the Civil War, initiated by a San Francisco
entrepreneur named Issac Lankershim. The native instincts of a
New England emigrant, Amaziah L. Knox, for the economic value of
the corner lot resulted in the erection of El Cajon's first
commercial building at Magnolia and Main in 1876. Finally, the
phenomenon called direction of growth laid a path of post World
War ll's exploding urbanization along Mission Valley, through La
Mesa and El Cajon.
Following the American Civil War, migrations of settlers sought
homesteads on the public lands of the West. However, the poorly
defined boundaries and legal confusion of Pio Pico's Rancho
Cajon land grant to the Pedrorenas were to be a source of
considerable dispute. As a consequence, historical accounts
frequently refer to these pioneering homesteaders by the less
noble term of " squatters."
Lankershim bought the bulk of the Pedrorena's Rancho Cajon
holdings in 1868, employing Major Levi Chase as his attorney.
Seven years of litigation ensued before title was cleared and
settlements negotiated with the squatters. Lankershim subdivided
his land, selling large tracts for wheat ranching. However, It
was soon discovered that the soil and climate would support
almost any crop. Within a few years the Big Box Valley was a
flourishing produce center for citrus, avocados, grapes, and
raisins. In fact, the suitability of the clear sunny climate for
drying raisins was a major real estate sales "pitch."
The gold mining operations in Julian brought a steady trek of
freight traffic hauling equipment and supplies and ore between
San Diego and Julian. The natural line of drift led the
teamsters down the old Mussey grade (now covered by San Vicente
Reservoir), south to the present site of Magnolia and Main, then
west through the Grossmont Pass into San Diego., Knox had moved
into the Valley in 1869 to build Lankershim's house and manage
his wheat ranch. Noting the teamsters' habit of camping
overnight at the present site of Main and Magnolia, he erected a
seven room building as a combination residence and hotel on its
southwest corner in 1876. Small additions were followed by a
large two story annex In 1882.
Knox's Corner
was to be the
nucleus of El
Cajon's business
district for the
next seventy
years. By the
turn of the
century the two
blocks of Main
Street, astride
Magnolia,
boasted two
hotels, a
general store,
meat market,
post office,
pharmacy,
harness shop,
blacksmith shop,
and sundry
smaller shops
and offices.
At the general election on November 12,
1912, 123 of 158 electors voted to incorporate a 1 1/4 square
mile area centering on the historic corners of Main and
Magnolia. The board of five trustees met the following week to
elect one of their number as president and appoint a city
attorney. Regular meetings were scheduled for the first
Wednesday of each month. However, special meetings to get the
administration organized and functioning were not infrequent.
Committees were appointed for Streets, Alleys, Water and Lights,
Finance and Licenses, and Health, Morals, and Sanitation. In
addition to the elected positions of Treasurer and Clerk,
appointments were made for a Marshal and Tax Collector,
Engineer, Recorder, Superintendent of Streets, two Deputy
Marshals, and a Fire Chief. Ordinances and resolutions were
passed to fix salaries or other compensation, provide for the
grading and sprinkling of streets, contract for bridge
construction and mapping the City, banning cattle and hogs from
the central city, and outlawing horseracing down Main Street.
For the next thirty years El Cajon followed the pattern of
orderly development typical of rural/ small town America. By
1940 the population had slightly more then doubled to a figure
of 1471. In the five years following World War II, the winds of
change became apparent. While land area increased slightly to
1.67 square miles, in-migration increased the population to
5,600. In 1949 the City Council began to study the feasibility
of the council-manager form of government to meet the day to day
administrative and long range planning requirements of a growing
metropolitan area.
The office of City Manager was instituted in 1950 in time to
meet the most explosive decade of growth in El Cajon's history,
or for that matter, the history of any comparable community in
the nation. By 1960 the incorporated area was to increase
five-fold to 9.8 square miles and population six-fold to 37,618.
However, this remarkable growth was not accomplished without its
trauma. Fiscal resources for capital investments necessary to
keep municipal services abreast of geometrically increasing
demand were sorely strained. Substantial capital outlays were
needed in virtually every department: Police, Fire, Sewage
Treatment, Public Works, Parks and Recreation and General
Government. In 1959 the Council and Manager commissioned a
research study to assess the present and probable future
structure of the City. Given the unforeseen developments in
double digit inflation and federal revenue sharing of the 70's,
the projections of this study were to prove remarkably
prophetic.
Integrating these research findings and projections into its
master plans, during the next decade El Cajon moved ahead on a
number of significant projects. Acquisition of additional fire
fighting equipment resulted in much improved insurance ratings.
A dozen key street improvement projects solved the traffic
congestion problems which were beginning to surface throughout
the incorporated area. A cross service agreement with the San
Diego Metropolitan Sewer District and construction of a major
outfall line eliminated the need to rely on septic tanks which
were saturating the subsoil to the danger point. The timely
purchase of property on Vernon Way in the early 50's facilitated
the economic construction of Public Works maintenance and
storage facilities.
As the City nears the end of the twentieth century its growth is
considerably more measured and orderly than that of the frantic
fifties. Guided by a prudent and fiscally responsible civic
leadership. It has weathered its rapid growth period with a
balanced economy and a governmental structure which offers full
municipal services. In 1976, during our nation's bicentennial, a
new civic center was opened to serve the citizens of El Cajon,
lending added luster to the historic corners of Main and
Magnolia. Our most recent additions to this area are the new
Headquarters Fire Station and the Neighborhood Center on
Lexington and Douglas Avenues, respectively. One might pause to
speculate on the thoughts of a sturdy New England emigrant when,
a century earlier, he erected El Cajon's first commercial
structure diagonally across the street.*
*Acknowledgment:
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the late Mrs. Hazel Sperry,
former Secretary and Curator of El Cajon Historical Society, for
much of the source material upon which this historical account
is based.
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