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East County does not have an official geographic definition, although East County boundaries are unofficially drawn by the County of San Diego for its second district. [1] It commonly includes El Cajon, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, Poway, and Santee, as well as suburban and rural unincorporated communities such as Lakeside, Spring Valley, Jamul, and ...
La Mesa was founded in 1869 and The City of La Mesa was incorporated on February 16, 1912. [13] Its official flower is the bougainvillea. [1] In 2020, La Mesa was the site of civil unrest in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [14]
The first Souplantation restaurant opened on Mission Gorge Road in San Diego in 1978. [10] It was the idea of Dennis Jay, who was a bartender at Springfield Wagon Works, a pioneer in salad bars in El Cajon. Dennis's friends, John Turnbull and Scott King, were opening their first Soup and Salad restaurant, The Soup Exchange.
Poway (/ ˈ p aʊ. eɪ /) is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. Poway's rural roots influenced its motto "The City in the Country". The city had a population of 48,841 as of the 2020 United States census. [7] Poway is part of San Diego's North County. [8]
The Carmel Mountain Ranch/Rancho Bernardo submarket is the fifth-largest office space submarket in San Diego County, with over 6 million square feet of office space. [4] It is part of an " I-15 edge city ", edge city being a major center of employment outside a traditional downtown.
Since 1997, the "Game at the Lake" annual softball game between Poway High School and Rancho Bernardo High School has taken place on the final day of the regular season. [12] On May 9, 2017, a memorial statue was unveiled at Lake Poway in honor of long-time Poway resident and San Diego Padres baseball player Tony Gwynn. The bronze likeness of ...
Volcanic clastic rock cobbles of rhyolite, in a sandstone matrix in this area are named Poway clasts. [ 2 ] The ancient Ballena River brought rhyolite-gravel, or "Poway" clasts, from a region in present-day Sonora, Mexico to the Pacific Ocean .
El Cajon Boulevard is a major east–west thoroughfare through San Diego, La Mesa and El Cajon, California.Before the creation of Interstate 8 it was the principal automobile route from San Diego to El Cajon, the Imperial Valley, and points east as U.S. Route 80; it is now signed as a business loop of Interstate 8.