Historical report, The Founding of Rancho Santa Fe and Its Water Supply, September 1986
Entry/Object ID
1985.015.002
Collection
Rancho Santa Fe Architectural Blueprints, Designs, and Plans, Rancho Santa Fe Papers, Reports and Correspondence
Archive Items Details
Title
The Founding of Rancho Santa Fe and Its Water Supply
Description
Historical report titled The Founding of Rancho Santa Fe and Its Water Supply prepared and annotated by Samuel Y. Johnson and dated September 1986. The report is organized into three parts covering the founding of Rancho Santa Fe, the Lake Hodges Dam story, and the early history of the Santa Fe Irrigation District. The text is compiled from rearranged passages of Edward Fletcher’s privately printed autobiography Memoirs of Ed Fletcher with additional annotated background information. The document includes photographic illustrations, engineering figures, and soil and development maps related to the Rancho San Dieguito area and Lake Hodges Dam.
