I Remember Poway Memoirs of Mary van Dam First Edition w/ folded Map tucked knside rear cover Signed Copy

Poway,California : Poway Historical Society, 1983. First Edition. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [23cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 140, indexed. Fully Illustrated with sepia halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The original name of the valley is derived from the Kumeyaay language of the Kumeyaay people who roamed the area for several hundred years before the Spaniards colonised the region. American settlers began to come to the valley for farming purposes in the late antebellum period. Few records of this time have survived, and not until 1894 and the inception of the Poway Progress did the town's history become a thing of record. In 1887, about 800 people lived and farmed in Poway. Around the start of the 20th century, Poway farmers had moderate success in the production and vending of fruit, grain, and dairy products. The expansion, however, failed to follow agricultural success