Rancho Temescal
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1819
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 33.769, -117.490
Why it was abandoned
❔ Cause unknown
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History
Rancho Temescal was a farming outpost of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, one of the 21 Franciscan missions established in California by Spain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Mission was located on the coast where Oceanside, California, is today. The Rancho was settled in 1819 by Leandro Serrano, and became the first non-native settlement within the boundaries of what would become Riverside County, California.