Special reprint, from the Fall 1995
Journal of San Diego History
Rancho Guajome
An Architectural Legacy Preserved
by Iris Engstrand and Mary Ward
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The Guajome Ranch House remains today as one of California's best
examples of Anglo-Hispanic domestic architecture still intact. Built on an
original Mexican land grant located in San Diego County, it lies within a
rural area three miles northwest of Vista and six miles east of Oceanside.
Most of the San Luis Rey Valley, as well as the land which would become Rancho Guajome, was utilized by the Franciscan padres for graz- ing of major and minor livestock and growing crops. Indian rancherias associated with the mission were scattered throughout the valley and extended inland to the headwaters of the San Luis Rey River.
Guajome was the home of Cave Couts, an 1843 graduate of West Point, who came to San Diego in 1849, married the daughter of Juan Bandini in 1851 and began construction of this Rancho in 1853.
32 pages, softbound, $3.00.
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