Portrait of a Boom Town: San Diego in the 1880's

Description: On the eve of the great Southern California land boom of the 1880s, San Diego was still very much Alonzo E. Horton's town. Indeed, the little city of some twenty-five hundred inhabitants might well have been called Hortonville - as was the town in Wisconsin that he had founded at the close of the Mexican War. When the fifty-four-year-old stepped ashore on April 15, 1867, New San Diego was nothing but the ragged remains of an abortive city-building venture that had been backed by William Heath Davis in 1859 To Horton, It seemed the best spot for building a city I ever saw. As for the village (Old Town) that was San Diego proper, Horton allowed that he would not pay five dollars for title to the whole place.

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Location: San Diego, California

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Book Title: Portrait of a Boom Town San Diego in the 1880's

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Publisher: The San Diego Historical Society

Original Language: English

Publication Year: 1977

Type: Local History

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Author: Larry Booth, Roger Olmsted, Richard F. Pourade

Features: Illustrated

Genre: History

Topic: Southern California, San Diego, Western Expansion, Pioneers and Settlers

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

10" x 6 3/4": 32 pages