Stories, Tales Folklore of our Communities, Volume 1

The Chula Vista Historical Society published a 57 page book titled "Stories, Tales, Folklore of our Communities" sometime during the 1980's in an effort to capture and document the social history of early Chula Vista.

Volume 1 (in the circulating collection at 979.498 CHULA Vol. 1 at the Chula Vista Public Library) included the following articles:

* Romance of the Ranchos" - page 1
* "They Had to Call it Something" - page 3
* "Here is When It Happened" - page 5
* "La Punta" - page 7
* "Mr. Estavan Etchenique, And Wool, And Lamb, And Mutton" -- page 8

* The Lima Bean" - page 9
* "The Man Who Built Hotel Del Coronado" - page 11
* "John J. Montgomery" - page 13
* "The High School Bus" - page 15
* "The First Citrus Orchards" - page 17

* "The Sweetwater Dam" - page 18
* "How Cockatoo Grove Got Its Name" - page 19
* "The Otay Watch Company" - page 21
* "The Saga of Watch No. 1219" - page 24
* " VFW Post 2111" - page 25

* "Robert H. Scholer" - page 26
* "Border Monument No. 255" - page 29
* "J.C. Davidson" - page 30
* "Colonel William Green Dickinson" - page 31
* "San Diego Land Company" - page 33

* "John E. Boal" - page 34
* "The Story of Maria Christina Schahn Schertzer" - page 35
* "Jesse and Elizabeth Carne" - page 37
* "Chula Vista Yacht Club" - page 39
* "Silver Eagle" - page 40

* "How the Bonita and Chula Vista Lemon Industry Got Started" - page 41
* "Jimmy Dunn" - page 42
* "Chula Vista Mutual Lemon Association" - page 43
* "The Higgs Brothers" - page 45
* "Harry and the Fox" - page 46

* "The Way Our County Roads Were Maintained at the Turn of the Century" - page 47
* "Brown Field's Early History" - page 48
* "Slow Down" - page 49
* "Four of a Kind" - page 49
* "My Eucalyptus Trees" - page 50

* "Friends Church of the Valley" - page 52
* "Bonita Post Office Postmasters" - page 53
* "The Mail Must Go Through" - page 54

There is an excellent street map of early Chula Vista (from National City to the border, the ocean to Sunnyside and Otay Mesa, on page 57. I don't know the date on it, but it is probably about 1910.