La Colonia and Solana Beach Spring Up from Colonel Ed Fletcher's Running Water: A Prequel to Early Solana Beach

Early history of Solana Beach, a coastal city in San Diego County, California, with a population of 12,867 at the 2010 census. By the author of the 2002 work Early Solana Beach, Jim Nelson, who describes this as a 'prequel' to his earlier book. Contents: Preface; The First Inhabitants: Indians, Spanish and Mexicans, 9000 BC - 1848; The Era of the Land Speculators, 1848 - 1918; Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch ... Rancho San Dieguito, 1822 - 1911; Ed Fletcher, the Early Years, 1872 - 1904; Fletcher's Military Service, 1891 - 1934; Col. Fletcher's Role in Water and Land Development, 1904 - 1922; Ed Fletcher, Road Builder and Transcontinental Highway Promoter, 1904 - 1928; The Development of Lake Hodges, 1911 - 1923; The Creation of La Colonia, 1919 - 1922; The Expansion of La Colonia, 1923 - 1946; Col. Fletcher Builds a Beach Town, 1922 - 1929; Senator Fletcher, the Later Years, 1934 - 1955; Conclusion; Photo Credits; Bibliography.