Here’s a verbal snapshot of a part of our county from a different time. Below is an excerpt from the front page of The San Diego Union of January 16, 1877, presenting a summary of San Diego County’s agricultural output for the previous year. This clip covers El Cajon, or as they referred to it then, the “El Cajon Rancho,” but the language and descriptions were similar for all the communities covered in terms of what was then a predominantly rural county where the livestock still outnumbered the humans. Note the number of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs versus the 90 humans. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the population of the city of El Cajon stood at 106,215! Have a good read and then, take a walk outside and look around you.