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Live Oak Springs Resort. Here is a popular bumper sticker, seen all throughout San Diego County, that reads Where the Hell is Boulevard? That bumper sticker aptly shows the situation of many small back country communities. Other than the local residents, and their friends, no one has ever heard of their town. This is particularly true of any town off the main highway or past Pine Valley in San Diego County, California. Read the whole article here. Pine Valley - A Mountain Oasis. Land of the Sun. THIS OWL...
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Pine Owl
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By E E. Stanford. Wise old owl sat in an oak. The more he saw, the less he spoke. Live Oak Springs Resort. Pine Valley - A Mountain Oasis. Tierra Del Sol, Land of the Sun. Country Castles in the Sky. Fact, Folklore, and Legend. If you are looking for more information on rural and mountain living and recreation Mountain Empire has many articles, columns, news, and tips in each issue. Previous articles and information can be found in the Archives. Typical search terms for rural and mountain living are:.
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Live Oak Springs Resort
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Live Oak Springs Resort. Here is a popular bumper sticker, seen all throughout San Diego County, that reads Where the Hell is Boulevard? That bumper sticker aptly shows the situation of many small back country communities. Other than the local residents, and their friends, no one has ever heard of their town. This is particularly true of any town off the main highway or past Pine Valley in San Diego County, California. Work on the resort included a dish antenna with giant screen TV in the lounge, air con...
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Pine Valley - A Mountain Oasis
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Pine Valley - A Mountain Oasis. In 1869, former Butterfield Stage coach driver, Captain William S. Emery and his wife settled in the area. Being Scotch-English pioneers from New England, the sound of Spanish words were unpleasant to their ears and, quickly, renamed El Valle de los Pinos to its literal translation of Pine Valley. Either way, the valley boasts one of the oldest names in the county. With new machinery and techniques available, gold mining was, once again, profitable. Noble Mines Inc....
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Country Castles in the Sky
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Country Castles in the Sky. So, what do people moving out to the country do? They come in trailers or mobile homes with truckloads of lumber they soon plan to call home. The completed homes will vary greatly. Some people simply bring mobile homes, other start with build-it-yourself kits (log homes, domes, prefab, etc.), some build from elaborate custom plans, and others from no plans at all. Just outside of Pine Valley you will find this beautiful, 3400 square foot, Queen Anne Victorian home. Owned b...
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Fact, Folklore, & Legend
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Fact, Folklore, and Legend. Nteresting facts about the Mountain Empire area of East San Diego County:. Office to change it's name from Hi-Pass to Tierra Del Sol (Land of the Sun). The idea was not popular with local residents, so as the story goes, the owners got the petition signed by residents in San Diego. Despite the objections of the local people the name. About ten to fifteen years ago local residents of the back country communities from Ramona and Alpine to Jacumba formed a group to study the poss...
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Benediction in the Country
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By Grace May Stutsman. Oftly, quietly,. The Yuletide snow falls in crystal flake;. Naked little shrubs clutch to their hearts. Thin shreds of winter's beauteous cloak. The brook pauses,. Then draws a long glistening robe. Snugly to its throat. A trail of tiny footprints, dimly outlined,. Beckons down a purple-shadowed glen. And zigzags into silence. Softly, peacefully,. A Yuletide benediction falls in crystal flakes . . Live Oak Springs Resort. Pine Valley - A Mountain Oasis. Country Castles in the Sky.
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Genemess of Yea Olde Sewer Wonderlande
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Yea Olde Sewer Wonderlande. In the beginning Man made the pollution and the sewers. 2 And the pollution was without form, and stunk; and darkness was. Upon the land of Man. And the ignorance of Man moved upon the face of the. 3 And Man said, gosh it stinks around here, let there be sewers:. And He built sewers. 4 And Man saw the sewers, that it stunk: And Man divided the sewers. 5 And Man called the sewers Sanitation Facilities, and the surface. And let it divide the sewers from the sewers. Kind, and the...
