In 1872, two ranches in the area of Pauba and Gran Temecula were acquired by Francisco Sanjurjo and Juan Murrieta, two Castilians. The California Southern Railroad Company was founded in 1880 with the aim of providing rail transportation from the South Pacific headland in Colton to San Diego, and connecting the northern communities of the county with the main city. This would help to increase trade and boost San Diego's economic prosperity. To obtain the decree, Louis Wolf, José Gonzales, Juan Murrieta, Francisco Sanjurjo and many other citizens of the area drove out the Indians from the Temecula Valley.
According to official reports, it had a population of 600.73. The first recorded Spanish visit to the area was in October 1797, with a Franciscan father, Father Juan Norberto de Santiago, and Captain Pedro Lisalde. On September 13, 1883, California Southern's first scheduled race between San Diego and San Bernardino took place. Nowadays, at 75 years old, I wonder if I will live to see the railroad built through Temecula Canyon again. The company that owned the 26,597 acres of Pauba Ranch and the 26,331 acres of Greater Temecula 67 proposed to attract ranchers to the valley by offering them a forty-acre ranch. An important factor in Temecula's growth was the establishment of the Pauba Land and Water Company. According to the American Community Survey of the Census Bureau, around 1.5% of Temecula's working population (1085 people) were related to the U.
S. military. In 1882 Mercedes Tores de Pujol (widow of Domingo Pujol who had acquired most of Murrieta's, Sanjurjo's and Gonzales' Temecula and Pauba ranches in 187.49) ceded seventeen acres to California Southern Railroad for building a warehouse, with two hundred acres allocated for a new city. The high number of young people in Temecula was due to the influx of middle-class families who came to buy houses during the housing boom of the 1990s. A stagecoach line began a local route from Warner Ranch to Colton in 1857 that passed through Temecula Valley. The old town of Temecula is a collection of historic buildings, hotels, museums, event centers, specialty food stores, restaurants, boutiques, gift and collectibles stores and antique dealers.
Interstate 15 has three complete interchanges in Temecula and a fourth one (French Valley Parkway) is partially built; only its southbound exit ramp has been completed.
