cazalea[Seiko Moderator]
17042
Old Pomerado Road
Dec 04, 2021,23:33 PM
We went for a walk today -- it's been a tough year around our house with various maladies but finally we are both up to strolling around the countryside with a watch on and camera in hand.
Today we ended up on Pomerado Road. (very close to
More Road Snakes aka the
Land That Time Forgot drive we did in September).
We started off on a nice path which quickly took us away from houses
to a beautiful pond we had never seen nor heard about!
We walked all the way around, sat for a few moments, and moved on.
We saw evidence that we live in a mostly-desert climate.
Social hall for Veterans, with playground for grandkids.
This very old stone house turned out to be a fish farm.
A few businesses that didn't survive the changing times.
And darned if we didn't run into the stage coach stop on the way up from San Diego northwards towards Riverside.
It was a day of pleasant surprises.
And I enjoyed wearing the perpetual, which I dug out of the watch cabinet yesterday.
Cazalea
PS -- About the Poway Stage Coach Stop:
In 1888, the first stage coach began to transport mail from San Diego to Escondido. Back then, Poway (known as Paguay at the time) was called the Twenty Mile House as it was 20 miles from San Diego and 20 miles from Escondido. Due to its convenience, it was used as a rest stop for tired passengers. The stage would make one stop at the post office in Poway and then continue on its way. 8-10 passengers were allowed to ride the stage coach on the 3-day journey for $1 or a round-trip for $1.50.
The route would cause numerous problems for the passengers due to severe weather conditions, windy mountain trails causing the mail to tip over and sometimes even the passengers falling out! The stage line was discontinued in 1912 when the automobile facilitated an easier form of mail delivery. The Poway road station stayed in operation until 1961 though. By this time 80% of the roads in Poway had been paved. In 1990 the road was cut off and a new, faster route was created, leaving this section as a quiet dead end.
Highway 395 was first commissioned in 1926 as a minor spur route of Hwy 195, which connected Washington to Canada. In the 1930's, the 395 Highway was expanded to cover Washington to San Diego and then over the Sierras. Before highway 395 though, people traveled mainly by stage coach.