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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JPJ_mcconnell-ranch_El-Centro-CA.html
In 1908 Hardy McConnell and son, Leslie, (A Native Son) left Temescal Canyon, near Corona, enroute to settle in Imperial Valley, driving two teams of horses pulling wagons, hauling farm implements, chickens and leading a cow.
Fourteen days later…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM165X_yuha-well_El-Centro-CA.html
Known as Santa Rosa De Las Lajas (Flat Rocks), this site was used on March 8, 1774 by the Anza exploring expedition, opening the land route from Sonora, Mexico, to Alta California. On December 11 to 15, 1775 the three divisions of Anza's colonizin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM165W_camachos-place-and-caf_El-Centro-CA.html
Camacho's Place was opened for business on December 12, 1946 by Richard Camacho and his wife, Juanita. It is erected on the site of a former Seventh-Day Adventist church and school that had been damaged and abandoned following a major earthquake o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM165V_united-states-inspection-station_Calexico-CA.html
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places By the United States Department of the InteriorUnited States Inspection Stationc. 1933
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM165U_hotel-de-anza_Calexico-CA.html
The Hotel De Anza was opened on May 28, 1931 by Will R. Conway, an experienced hotelman. The $48,000 cost was partly financed by Calexico citizens. It was opened with a big celebration after being built in only four month. The hotel featured three…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM165T_calexico-carnegie-library_Calexico-CA.html
Completed in 1919, the library was constructed with a $10,000 grant from industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Calexico's Woman's Improvement Club and the Farmers and Merchants Club encouraged the city to apply for the Carnegie funds. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1652_imperial-irrigation-district_Imperial-CA.html
The largest gravity fed irrigation district in the western hemisphere, established in 1911. They later assumed control of several water companies and were instrumental in getting the Hoover Dam and the All American Canal built.
They commenced …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1651_mobley-meadows_Imperial-CA.html
Mobley MeadowsFirst Sheriff of Imperial County1907 - 1915
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1650_harold-bell-wright_Holtville-CA.html
Harold Bell Wright rose from poverty to become "America's favorite author" for the first three decades of the 20th Century.Many of his 19 books were best sellers and made into both "silent" and later "talkies". They include '"The Winning of Barbar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM164Z_site-of-rancho-el-tecolote_Holtville-CA.html
Prolific author Harold Bell Wright purchased 160 acres here in 1907. While living in a tent he built Rancho El Tecolote, constructing a woven arrow weed studio in 1908 and a ranch house in 1909. From 1907 to 1916 he wrote three best sellers, inclu…