San Diego California Events. Area focus - Lemon Grove

City: Lemon Grove
Area Population: 24,953
Elevation: 443 feet above sea level
Distance from downtown SD: 10.2 miles northeast

Lemon Grove City Website
Lemon Grove Chamber of Commerce
Lemon Grove Demographic Profile - Fact Sheet
Lemon Grove Demographic Profile - Map

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Services
Lemon Grove

Library
8073 Broadway, Lemon Grove, CA 91945
(619-463-9819) Map - Website

Post Office
7938 Broadway, Lemon Grove, CA 91945
(800-275-8777) Map

Sheriff
3240 Main Street, Lemon Grove, CA 91945
(619-337-2000) Map

Schools
Lemon Grove

Golden Avenue Elementary School (K-6)
7885 Golden Avenue, Lemon Grove, CA 91945
(619-825-5637) Map - Website

Monterey Heights Elementary School (K-6)
7550 Canton Drive, Lemon Grove, CA 91945
(619-825-5633) Map - Website

Mount Vernon Elementary School (K-6)
8350 Mount Vernon Street, Lemon Grove, CA 91945
(619-825-5613) Map - Website

San Altos Elementary School (K-6)
1750 Madera Street, Lemon Grove, CA 91945
(619-825-5621) Map - Website

San Miguel Elementary School (K-6)
7059 San Miguel Avenue, Lemon Grove, CA 91945
(619-825-5619) Map - Website

Lemon Grove Middle School (4-8/7-8)
7866 Lincoln Street, Lemon Grove, CA 91945
(619-825-5628) Map - Website

Palm Middle School (4-8/7-8)
8425 Palm Street, Lemon Grove, CA 91945
(619-825-5641) Map - Website

Useful Links
Lemon Grove

East County Magazine
Lemon Grove School District
San Diego County Branch Libraries
San Diego County Business Directory - Lemon Grove
San Diego County, Office of Education
Wikipedia - Lemon Grove, California
Wikipedia - Lemon Grove Incident, California

The community was settled in 1869 by its first known permanent resident, sheep rancher Robert Allison. From the 1860s to 1900 the area was known for sheep and poultry ranching and vegetable crops. In the early 1900s, the community acquired its name when large citrus groves were planted and lemon and orange growing and shipping became the area's major industry. By World War II, most of the citrus groves had disappeared and suburbanization had begun. By 1960, most of the easily developable land was gone. Lemon Grove was incorporated as a general law city in 1977.

"The World's Biggest Lemon"

There is a ten foot wide statue of a lemon located at 3361 Main Street. It lies before a small lemon grove besides the Orange Line Trolley Tracks near the local trolley station and downtown bus stop. Written across the base of this monument are the words "Best Climate On Earth".

Urban Legends

There is a local urban legend that a worker died during the construction of the giant lemon, and was eventually entombed inside the lemon.

Another local urban legend has it that a Native American princess was buried in Lemon Grove, near the shopping center off College Avenue, just north of the Federal/Broadway intersection. In fact, there was a grave at that location although it was the Polish princess Filomena Wojciechowski. The flag of Poland flew over the grave until it was moved in the late 1960s during the construction of the present College Avenue off-ramp from eastbound Highway 94.

The Lemon Grove Mummy

In 1966, two teenagers ventured to caves near Chihuahua, Mexico in search of a mummy to keep for their own. After spending more than a month exploring caves, the teens finally found two mummies which they packed up and smuggled across the border.

Having no idea what to do with their discoveries and not wanting their parents to know, the teens asked a friend if they could store a box in her garage in Lemon Grove, California.

For 14 years, the mummies of the girl and the infant remained in the Lemon Grove garage, until the mother of the friend began to clean out her garage. The mother discovered the mummies and as a result believed a murder had taken place. When the mummies where tracked back to the two males, they wanted to donate the mummies to a museum. The San Diego Museum of Man officials contacted Mexican authorities and asked for permission to keep the mummies as exhibits and an addition to the permanent collection. Permission was granted, and the mummies were placed on exhibit.


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