Visit the new Historical Research Center
The Historical Society is currently implementing a state of the art catalog system to easily locate the
vast amount of our historical collection.
List of Items available for historic research
1883 Schoolhouse Historical Research Center
The history material is varied as follows:
Subject files (105)
Videos
Oral Histories - Highway 101, Personal experiences
Photos
Books (County towns, Life in 1800's, One Room Schoolhouses, etc.
If you like history you will continue to come back to this web site. The Historical Society will be posting
many in-house research papers, history of the past newspaper articles, and special history features for
students for local history reports. To name a few history topics; Cottonwood Creek, Trains, Boathouses,
Ida Truax,  Spanish California, histories of our four Districts, Leucadia, Encinitas, Olivenhain, and
Cardiff. All history topics can be downloaded and will be available soon. All of our 105+ history files are
maintained in the 1883 Schoolhouse. All are welcome to research on our web site or Schoolhouse. We are
open on Friday and Saturday afternoons.


Come by during business hours and have our docents show you around and assist you in any way.
390 West F Street
Encinitas, CA 92024
760.942.9066
Encinitas Historical Society
Other Notes of Interest
Copies, on paper, can be reproduced for pictures or research material. Cost for reproduction is $.15
per copy.

Assistance in history search is provided by Docents on Friday and Saturday afternoons between
Noon - 4:00 p.m.