We owe a lot to our mountain historian, Peter Brueggeman for endless hours sourcing and providing links to stories and books, old photos and so much more. Here is his latest collection of how some of our mountain areas got their names:
From: Peter Brueggman
Here’s links to pieces I’ve researched and written on the origin of various Palomar Mountain placenames. Note that the placenames for Colb Valley and Parayne Hill are misspelled from the original people involved.
Birch Hill… named after Henry and Arthur Birch
see https://archive.org/details/birch_202301
French Valley…. named after Hubert Foussat and Jean Foussat
see https://archive.org/details/foussat
Parayne Hill … named after Jean Bertrand Peyregne and Jean Louis Peyregne
see https://archive.org/details/peyregne
Gordon Point… named after Donald Gordon
see https://archive.org/details/gordon_20241217
Morgan Hill … named after William Henry Morgan
see https://archive.org/details/fry-morgan
Barker Valley… named after Joseph R. Barker
see https://archive.org/details/barker_202412
Dyche Valley … named after George V. Dyche
see https://archive.org/details/dyche_20240220
Colb Valley… named after William Jasper Kolb
see https://archive.org/details/kolb_20240530
Jeff Valley and Will Valley… named after members of the Cook family
see https://archive.org/details/cook_20240608
Pedley Valley … named after Nathan Chaffin Pedley
see https://archive.org/details/pedley
Love Valley … named after John A. Love
see https://archive.org/details/love_20241123
Frazier Point… named after Maria and Elizabeth Frazier
see https://archive.org/details/fraziers-of-palomar-mountain_202310
Doane Valley … named after George Doane
see https://archive.org/details/doane_202402
Thank you Peter!!!
Interested in some fun history on George Doane? And, here is the link to his book!
There are fabulous photos and endless reading on Peter’s Palomar History resource.
You’re amazing Peter!
Bonnie Phelps
Palomar Mountain News 
If you can make it Monday night to our Christmas Music evening, you’re welcome. We have an annual pancake breakfast, Labor Day BBQ and are planning more events at the community center. Please stay tuned for info. Also, I’m glad to give you a tour around the neighborhoods. I check on my cabin listings and you’re welcome to come along sometime. Just let me know when is good for you.
By: Bonnie Phelps on December 22, 2024
at 2:09 am
Hi Bonnie, I hike at Palomar often and over many years and I’ve always wondered about the people who live there, if there’s a town center where they gather, and where they live exactly. There’s got to be more homes than just the ones I pass driving into the park. I’ve enjoyed the fall harvest festival there for many years but not so much when social media blew the top off of it a couple of years before co-vid hit. I would love to meet up with some Palomar folks next time I’m up there just to meet and chat.
Ahimsa,
*Rita *
“*Everything is energy. Match the frequency of the reality you want and * *you **cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. **This is physics.” ~ *Albert Einstein
They say to expect nothing but that doesn’t mean to accept everything.
Rita Robinson Writer, Editor, Environmentalist organicmrita@gmail.com
By: swiftly0942dd12e9 on December 21, 2024
at 11:58 pm