Welcome to Temecula!
Horses & Wine, what’s not to love!
Bordered by the City of Murrieta to the north and the Pechanga
Indian Reservation and San Diego County to the south. In 2013 the population was estimated at 106,780. The City was incorporated in December of 1989. A wonderful tourist destination, with Temecula Wine tasting in Wine Country, fun and food in Old Town Temecula, Temecula Valley Polo Club, the Temecula Wine and Balloon Festival, the Temecula Valley you can have it all!
International Film Festival along with championship Golf courses, resort accommodations, big shows and gaming at the Pechanga Casino, something for everybody! The educational (top schools in the nation), healthcare, leisure, finance and retail sectors make this a great place to live and raise a family, making this area prime Real Estate at an affordable price!
Murrieta
It is “…magnificent land blessed with verdant open spaces dotted with towering oak trees, sycamores, a valley of rich grasses and natural hot springs…”quote of Ezequiel Murrieta, it reminded him of his native Spain, so he bought 52,000 acres, fully intending to move his sheep ranching operation here from central California…”
The natural scenic beauty of the area and what is still by California standards reasonably priced housing continues to attract significant numbers of residents and businesses who are finding Murrieta a great place to grow.
Those living in the community find distinguished schools, abundant recreation, excellent medical facilities, expanding employment opportunities, and one of the lowest crime rates in Southern California. Entrepreneurs find a market growing larger by the day, above average household incomes, a skilled labor force, and a business-friendly city hall. It’s a community with a past and vision for its future. One that welcomes challenges, takes risks, embraces opportunity. Murrieta is, indeed, The Future of Southern California.
Menifee
Early Inhabitants
The area was originally inhabited by the Luiseno and Pechanga Indian tribes, and in the 1700s. The area was eventually annexed into the United States from Mexico in 1850 under California’s statehood.
Farming activity beginning in the mid-1800s was concentrated in the Menifee area. Mining activity began in the early 1880s with the discovery of a significant quartz lode by miner Luther Menifee Wilson. Menifee derived its name from that mining operation.
Early development began with Sun City, an active retirement community by Del Webb in the 1960’s. The area began to grow further in 1989 with the master-planned community of Menifee Lakes and continues to be one of the fastest growing communities in California. Quail Valley is a semi-rural residential community in the northwestern section of the city, and Romoland is a residential and commercial community located in the northeastern section of the city.
The City of Menifee is also home to great schools and to Mt. San Jacinto College. The Menifee campus serves the Temecula, Murrieta, and Menifee area.
Hemet
The area in which Hemet is located was first inhabited by members of the Cahuilla Indian tribe. Then, in the early 1800’s, it became a cattle ranch for Mission San Luis Rey and was called Rancho San Jacinto.
The City of Hemet owes its inception and initial growth to the visit of author Helen Hunt Jackson, who was gathering material on the Soboba’s Indians, and wrote the famous Ramona outdoor pageant, still performing each spring, and two ranchers of race horses in the San Jacinto Mountains that was then called the Hemet Valley. They built the Lake Hemet Dam and reservoir in the mountains to supply water to the Hemet at that time, now is known as Lake Hemet. Now the Diamond Valley Reservoir is water to supply Hemet and Los Angeles when needed! Hemet still has large race horse ranches, and history takes off from there!
Hemet were buying domestic water from the Lake Hemet Water Company, and farmers were using irrigation water on their alfalfa fields, fruit orchards and row crops, particularly potatoes.
The famous Ryan School of Aeronautics, which trained about 6,000 fliers for the Army Air Force between 1940 and 1944 Still exists today as the Hemet Ryan Airport, the site of the original Ryan Flight School. In the early 1960’s saw the development of retirement housing developments such as Del Webb’s, Hemet became well known as a retirement community.
Hemet also has become home to significant numbers of younger families who provide services to the senior population or who are simply fleeing the more urbanized areas of Southern California. The economy is based primarily on service to the senior community and ancillary services such as financial institutions and the health care professions.
Other great communities:
Aguanga, Anza, and Warner Springs
Beautiful High Desert communities with gated residential Riverside Estates. Route Highway 79 goes all the way to Mountain Center in the high elevations and from there to the south to Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage communities. To the north to Garner Valley, and up to Idyllwild Mountain Village.
Mountain Center, Idyllwild, Garner Valley
Great Mountain communities just east of Hemet, Mountain Center, just what it’s called. This area was the home of Bonanza television show, filmed in Garner Valley. Horse properties, with groomed trails and access to the Pacific Crest Trail. Take the road known as Pines to Palms Highway to Palm Desert and Palm Springs and you’ll be surrounded by Mountains and tall Pine trees, and gorgeous views that abruptly turns into huge boulders and Sage Brush, land of the Santa Rosa Indians Reservation. Spectacular views as you descend to the Deserts below.
