Campo Stone Store

The bronze says raided and stops there. The Gaskills had asked San Diego for a posse and been refused, so Campo armed itself and waited weeks. Cruz Lopez rode in on December 4, 1875. Luman took a bullet through the lung and Silas one in the shoulder, and both lived. Two wounded raiders, Jose Alvijo and Rafael Martinez, were hanged from an oak nearby without ever seeing a court. The store on this plaque is the 1885 stone replacement for the one they shot up.

What the plaque says

Campo Stone Store The pioneer Gaskill brothers of 1868 built a frame store which was raided on December 4, 1875, by border bandits. This fort-like replacement of summer, 1885, was bought in 1896 by E. T. Aiken, resold to Klauber Wangenheim, 1898, and operated by Henry Marcus Johnson as the Mountain Commercial Company until 1925. In disrepair, it was bought after 1938 by E. M. Statler, given to San Diego County, and restored, 1943-48, as a museum. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 411 Originally registered November 15, 1948. Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the San Diego County Department of Parks and Recreation and Squibob Chapter, E Clampus Vitus, May 3, 1986.

Where it stands

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