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Due to the excessive heat warning the Warner Carrillo Ranch House Museum will be closed this weekend July 10th and 11. For now, enjoy the museum's online exhibit from the cool comfort of your home. http://www.sohosandiego.org//warnercarril/introduction.htm

Myrta and Rena Hoover, listening to their dogs in rapt attention at Santa Ysabel. Courtesy Hoover Family.

The Warner Carrillo Ranch House museum is open 12 to 4 today and admission is free. Celebrate July 4th with a visit and bring your friends!

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SOHO is adding Warner-Carrillo Ranch House to the Julian Woman's Club Backcountry Quilt Trail. Other colorful quilts can be found at the Sawday barn in Witch Creek and the Ponchetti barn in Santa Ysabel, both of which share a historic connection to this ranch. Other barn quilts can be seen on barns, homes, and businesses in Wynola and Julian. Find more info about this project and a map at the article. http://www.sohosandiego.org/enews/0721barnquilt.htm

Myrta Hoover at Santa Ysabel, courtesy Hoover Family.

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Happy 151st Birthday to Mary Jane Taylor (1870-1966), born to Harmon Turner Helm of Missouri and his wife Maria Jesua, a member of the local tribe. Marrying Sam Taylor in 1892, she and Taylor raised 8 children at the Ranch House at Warners where Sam was hired as ranch foreman by cattle baron Walter Vail. Their three youngest children, Henry, Arthur, and Banning were born at the quaint old adobe home built by Vicenta and Ramon Carrillo in 1857. Photo courtesy Ancestry.com.

The Warner-Carrillo Ranch House Museum is now open weekends from Noon - 4pm. Free Admission! Bring the whole family! For details, visit http://www.sohosandiego.org/main/hourswcrh.htm

Feliz Cumpleanos to Josefa Yorba de Smythe (1841-1924), the 3rd child of Vicenta Yorba de Carrillo and Tomás Yorba. Josefa was born at the Rancho de la Sierra; after Tomás died in 1845, her mother married Jose Ramon Carrillo in 1847, who became Josefa's primary father figure. A married woman of 16 years of age when Ramon and Vicenta built the Ranch House at Warners, she never resided there, having married John Sidney Smythe a year prior, when she was only 15. Josefa and John raised 9 children in Orange County. Image courtesy Saddleback Ancestors.

SOHO Members receive a 15% discount on all antiques purchases, so join today: http://www.sohosandiego.org/main/membership.htm (Note: SOHO discounts do not apply at the privately-operated Manzanita Hardware store within the Santa Ysabel Store.)

Feliz Cumpleanos to Juan Francisco Santos Yorba (1835-?), the first child of Vicenta Carrillo and her first husband, Tomás Yorba. Juan married his cousin Isabel Serrano in 1854 at the age of 19, three years prior to his mother and stepfather Ramón building the Ranch House at Warners. While Juan and Isabel did not reside at Ranch House, he and his family were likely frequent visitors. Juan and Isabel raised 6 children in Los Angeles. Image courtesy Calisphere.

Good article here- Helping our indigenous, wild North American Bees by restoring indigenous plants. https://www.nwf.org///2021/June-July/Gardening/Honey-Bees

Sharing this opportunity with you from our friends at The Temecula Valley Historical Society: Invites the public to use modern technology to step into the past to access a live zoom program at 6 pm on Monday, February 22. Historian and author Rebecca Farnbach will present photos and stories about the 1909 restaurant and the colorful characters who had businesses there varying from a Wild West saloon to a Lutheran church. Farnbach, a founding member of the historical society a...nd an advocate for historic preservation, has co-authored six books in the Images of America series. During her presentation on February 22, she will answer the question of which building in Old Town Temecula is the oldest. To access the zoom presentation, find the link on the homepage of www.temeculahistoricalsociety.org. Questions may be directed to Ms. Farnbach at [email protected] or 951-775-6057.

The Santa Ysabel Store at the well-traveled crossroads where state highways 78 and 79 meet, 1951. Photo courtesy Bill Aplin.

Vicenta Carrillo's niece, Francisca Avila de Sepulveda married Anaheim pioneer Theodore Rimpau in 1850 at the Plaza Church in Los Angeles. A native of Germany, Rimpau was well educated and reportedly spoke six languages. Rimpau became a prosperous merchant, served on the Board of Education, and as Anaheim City Councilman. By 1860 the couple had settled in Anaheim, where they raised 15 children. Pictured are Francisca, ca 1850, and Theodore, ca 1875. Learn more about the Carrillo family at the Warner-Carrillo Ranch House: http://www.sohosandiego.org/main/warnercarrillo.htm

Bread delivery at the Santa Ysabel Store, 1948. Photo courtesy SDHC.

Have some Halloween fun at home! This is done with a very historically bent with lots of neat historic images and artifacts not normally seen on a regular tour- so I think many of you San Diego history lovers here would really enjoy it.

Driving the Butterfield Stage over a 24 day "trip through hell" was a formidable job. In 1858 frontiersman Jacob "Dutch" Bergman drove the first stage to cross the western desert. After serving in the Civil War, he returned to California and ranched along the stage route near Oak Grove on the north side of Palomar mountain. Six generations later the Bergman family continues to live in the area! Photo courtesy of San Diego History Center

The history of cattle branding is one that goes back many centuries and spans different cultures. Made well-known by the cowboys and vaqueros of the American West. An iron rod with a symbol or brand on the end was first heated in a fire and then burned into the cattle's hide. Essential to establishing ownership of mixed herds of cattle, there are many brands seen at the fireplace at the Warner Carrillo Ranch House where museum visitors can view them burned into the wood floor by bachelor cowboys during the Sawday lease era and see an actual Carrillo iron donated by a descendant too! Image showing our Cowboys handiwork.

This story is a reminder to each of us to seize each day! A turn of events can mean the end of a life. Take care of yourself and others! John Treanor was a civic leader and philanthropist. He discovered a cache of lime in Riverside County which improved the tensile strength of cement and became president of the very successful Riverside Portland Cement Company. ... Shown here in 1928 at his Mataguay Ranch with daughter Mary and astride his horse Silver, John was known as a great outdoorsman. But in the 1920s -he went missing on a solo hike on Catalina Island when he fell into a deep canyon breaking his leg. Long before cell phones, helicopters, and emergency personnel, his friends formed a search party and found him two days later. Using ropes they pulled him up from 700 feet below and saved his life. Unfortunately, his leg had to be amputated from the knee down, but nothing stopped him from his very active life. He loved horses, golf, swimming, camping, and entertaining family and business associates at Mataguay. And then, in 1935 while inspecting work on the roof barn (yes, with an amputated leg) he was cutting some tree branches when he fell fracturing his skull and instantly dying leaving many grieving the remarkable person he was. He is buried on his beloved ranch. Photo courtesy of the John Treanor Collection

Most know the great 20th-century American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald from his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby-which depicts the Jazz Age, a term he popularized. But did you know that he reportedly wrote parts of the novel while staying at Warner Hot Springs!? Early brochures of the resort advertised that the hot spring waters had curative powers for arthritis, rheumatism, tuberculosis, and alcoholism. Fitzgerald suffered from the latter two, and Warner Springs was home... to many Hollywood celebrities for various health reasons. Sadly most of Fitzgerald’s success came after his death in Hollywood in 1940 of a heart attack. In all, he wrote four novels, one hundred and sixty-four short stories, and a number of screenplays. Pictured here with his wife and muse Zelda Sayre and Frances Scott Fitzgerald, his only child.

Eddie Guachino was an elder from the Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel, at the Santa Ysabel reservation. As is the custom of the Indigenous peoples, it is not only age but wisdom that makes a person an elder. They are always consulted when questions or major issues need answers within a tribe. The Indigenous Native American culture is known for its rich oral tradition, passing on generations of traditions and customs so that these important lessons and stories are not forgotten.

And another share- Barona is one of our favorite Museums! Meet Eva Salazar, renowned Kumeyaay basketmaker! She'll be showing and selling at Barona Museum Thursday, October 15, 12pm-5pm Friday, October 16, 12pm-5pm... Saturday, October 17, 10am-4pm Meet Eva, watch her work (she makes basket-making look so easy) and buy yourself a truly one-of-a-kind basket imbued with thousands of years of traditional knowledge and artistry! https://www.facebook.com/events/437881640510787/

Sharing for our friends at the Temecula Valley Historical Society: The public is welcome to join with Temecula Valley Historical Society members for our Zoom presentation on Monday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. when our members Michelle Elling and Shelley Leddy will present the historic Temecula characters Edna Swanguen and Catherine Fernald. Elling and Leddy are two of the troupe of actors in the Notable Men and Women of Temecula who portray in costume people who lived in Temecu...la in the past, with insight and humor. Edna Swanguen ran the Temecula phone switchboard for forty-three years, beginning in 1918. She and her husband also ran Hall’s Café’, the first restaurant in Temecula. At night she would sleep on a cot next to the switchboard just in case a call came in because she was the only phone employee in Temecula. Catherine Fernald was a woman ahead of her time. She owned a photography studio in Temecula, she rode bicycles and motorcycles and flew planes. Her outdoor photos of the area, taken around 1900, are highly sought after today. To join the Zoom presentation, find the link on the homepage of www.temeculahistoricalsociety.org. For more information about this program, media may contact Rebecca Farnbach, 951-775-6057.

In case you missed this in our enews! Tales of a Medicine Man By Kathryn Fletcher September/October 2020 SOHO Enews

The Santa Ysabel Mission has never given up hope that the famous bells that were stolen in 1926 will someday be returned. This original sculpture, The " Angel of Lost Bells, by Steven Girardi was made with that hope in mind. The clappers were found by the Osuna family and held until they were returned in 1955 and placed in the museum. ... Two years ago a Mass and celebration of the 200th anniversary of the original mission were held. A group of chapel parishioners, led by Gil Koda was able to obtain a grant for much-needed restorations of the 1929 Chapel. Other donations have also contributed to repairs to the leaking roof, eaves destroyed by swallows, stained glass windows, grotto, and grounds. The Santa Ysabel Mission at 23013 CA-79, and new the nearby County Nature Center are well worth visiting.

This 1926 photograph of boaters enjoying a day on beautiful Lake Henshaw shows what a vast expanse of water it was compared to today. After the dam was completed in 1922 it took just a few years to reach its capacity helped by the winter rainfall and summer thunderstorms that used to be plentiful in the Warner Valley. Climate change since that time has reduced rainfall amounts by about half, but the level of the lake has also been reduced by the huge growth in the populati...on of northern San Diego County for which the dam was originally built. In addition, after the Northridge earthquake and destruction of the Van Norman dam, the California Earthquake Authority ordered the water level lowered as a precaution. The Warner Valley which used to be green all year round is now increasingly brown and dry between Spring and Winter, and dry Santa Ana winds make fire season almost year-round. A good El Nino year would help in so many ways! 1926 Photo courtesy of the Treanor Family Collection-

A mother and son are shown enjoying family time together in the 1940s in the Warner Hot Springs pools. During stressful times and anxiety about so many things, we look back fondly at simpler times. There were no phones or televisions at the resort. Families spent time together enjoying the great outdoors. Kids were free to roam and enjoy themselves with their parents and grandparents, bringing generations back again and again. (photo courtesy of Warner Historical Society)

The Cahuilla are noted for their beautiful, artful, and useful basketry. Each basket is made for a specific purpose, such as gathering, cleaning, and sifting, and each artist has his or her own signature in the designs of the basketry. Baskets were used for a prolonged period of time so good quality materials and preparation were important and necessary. Ancient Cahuilla villages stretched across a vast area of Riverside and San Bernadino counties. The only current-day reservation in San Diego county is Los Coyotes near Warner Springs. Image courtesy DesertSun.