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
