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New Encinitas: History
New Encinitas, ironically, holds some of the area’s oldest history, including Captain Gaspar de Portola’s Spanish expedition’s march to establish two forts in California, San Diego and Monterey. This was around 1769. The city’s name came from the expedition’s secretary, Father Chrispi, who wrote about the hills of live oak trees. “Oak” in Spanish is “Encina.” Encinitas means “Little Live Oaks.” Today El Camino Real is the heart of the business district, but only thirty years ago it was farms and flower fields. Rabbits bounded along the road. Cows peered over fences. And somewhere underneath, slightly north of those eight lanes of traffic roaring past Home Depot, lie the foundations of Green Valley’s one room schoolhouse where, with no outdoor plumbing, in rainy weather children had to walk on planks across mud to reach the outhouse.
