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- Encinitas
got its name from Encina Canada, Spanish
for "hills of live oaks".
This describes what Gaspar de Portola
saw in 1669, when he led an expedition
through the region.
- E-zee
Street sign (off Saxony Rd.) is anchored
to the ground by a massive chain because
people kept stealing the sign.
- Encinitas
was the "Home of the Mid-Winter
Flower Show."
- La
Paloma Theatre is supposedly haunted
by the ghost of a man who died in
1928.
- San
Dieguito tap water was so brown that
most restaurants disguised it in amber
glasses.
- President
Roosevelt passes along the 101 stretch
once in the mid 1930s.
- 1907
the town's population was 22.
- Charlie
Chaplin's older brother, Syd, owned
the land where Encinitas City Hall
now sits. He also owned the land north
of the Civic Center, Hacienda Del
Playa.
-
Jabez Pitcher settled in Encinitas
in 1881 and is considered to be the
founding father of the town. Shortly
after Pitcher came to North County
San Diego, he claimed 160 acres near
the railroad tracks where the Civic
Center is now located.
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