Palomar Mountain history resources
website: palomar.peterbrueggeman.com
email:
Mountain residents:
some of these files are large in size and not suited for dial-up Internet access;
please contact me if you have access difficulties
- BOOKS
- Palomar from Teepee to Telescope
Catherine M. Wood
Published San Diego, Calif. : Printed by Frye & Smith, 1937
Peter Brueggeman, editor. 2nd revised edition 2006
- PDF
- Available for
purchase at the Palomar Mountain Store.
- Palomar Mountain : Past and Present
Marion F. Beckler
Published Palm Desert, Calif. : Printed by Desert Magazine, 1958
Peter Brueggeman, editor. 2nd revised edition, 2006
- PDF
- Available for purchase at the Palomar Mountain Store
- Palomar Mountain Views
Volume 1 (1982) includes Edward H. Davis' history of Palomar Mountain
Volume 2 (1983) includes Elsie R.H. Robert's historical memories;
LeRoy Bonham's 1921 Boy Scout trek to Palomar;
Mildred Koenig's memories of Skyline Lodge (now known as Palomar Mountain Lodge at the end of Crestline)
- Purchase at the Palomar Mountain Store.
- My Palomar
Robert Asher
Published San Diego, Calif. : Premier Publishing, 2005
- Order ONLINE or
purchase at the Palomar Mountain Store.
- The Culture of the Luiseņo Indians
Philip Stedman Sparkman
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1908
University of California publications in American archaeology and ethnology volume 8, number 4
This book has considerable information about Native Americans on Palomar. Each band of the Luiseno Indians between Pala and San Jose Valley (Warner's Ranch) had a tract on Palomar Mountain, to which it moved during the acorn gathering season.
- The Hidden Cabin, a Pathetic Story in Condensed Form
David W. Edwards
Published Los Angeles : Commercial Printing House, 1909
Not a history; this is a long poem set at Palomar Mountain.
- BROCHURES & SHORT WORKS
- Palomar Mountain, Camp Site & Club House
now known as the Crestline / Birch Hill area
anonymous, undated
Wood's book dates the Camp Sites development as starting in 1920; Beckler dates it from 1921-1923
eight page three fold brochure, 16 x 35 cm
- Pedley Valley and Darby's Palomar Mountain Resort
Robin Howell April 02, 2005
- Uncle Nate of Palomar
Touring Topics 23(10):22-25, October 1931
- Palomar Lodge
now known as Bailey's Palomar Resort
anonymous, undated with handwritten note dated 17 June 1928
twelve page five fold brochure, 16 x 52 cm
- 1911 Palomar Mountain trip photographs
- Palomar Mountain photographs from 1930 & 1931: Wieslander Vegetation Type Mapping Project
- Palomar Mountain Hotel
now known as Bailey's Palomar Resort
anonymous, undated
older than above brochure;
an inflation calculator puts it around 1913
(cost comparision of single room/board per day between the two brochures)
twelve page five fold brochure, 16 x 52 cm
- Palomar Mountain in the Memoirs of Ed Fletcher
- Vintage Postcards of Palomar Mountain
- SITES ON PALOMAR MOUNTAIN HISTORY
- MAPS
- George Adamski (Palomar Gardens now known as Oak Knoll Campground)
Other Historical Sites of Interest