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City: Poway
Area Population: 47,957
Elevation: 1,000 feet above sea level
Distance from downtown SD: 26.9 miles northeast

Goodan Ranch
16281 Sycamore Canyon
Poway, CA 92064
(858-513-4737) Map

Hours: (Winter) 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Summer) 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Directions to Park: Take 1-15 North to Poway, Exit 18.

Sycamore Canyon
16281 Sycamore Canyon
Poway, CA 92064
(858-513-4737) Map

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Library
13137 Poway Road, Poway, CA 92064
(858-513-2900) Map - Website

Post Office
13308 Midland Road, Poway, CA 92064
(800-275-8777) Map

Sheriff
13100 Bowron Road, Poway, CA 92064
(858-513-2800) Map

Schools
Poway

Chaparral Elementary School (K-6)
17250 Tannin Drive, Poway, CA 92064
(858-485-0042) Map - Website

Garden Road Elementary School (K-6)
14614 Garden Road, Poway, CA 92064
(858-748-0230) Map - Website

Midland Elementary School (K-6)
13910 Midland Road, Poway, CA 92064
(858-748-0047) Map - Website

Painted Rock Elementary School (K-6)
16711 Martincoit Road, Poway, CA 92064
(858-487-1180) Map - Website

Pomerado Elementary School (K-6)
12321 9th Street, Poway, CA 92064
(858-748-1320) Map - Website

Tierra Bonita Elementary School (K-6)
14678 Tierra Bonita Road, Poway, CA 92064
(858-748-8540) Map - Website

Valley Elementary School (K-6)
13000 Bowron Road, Poway, CA 92064
(858-748-2007) Map - Website

Meadowbrook Middle School (4-8/7-8)
12320 Meadowbrook Lane, Poway, CA 92064
(858-748-0802) Map - Website

Twin Peaks Middle School (4-8/7-8)
14640 Tierra Bonita Road, Poway, CA 92064
(858-748-5131) Map - Website

Poway High School (9-12)
15500 Espola Road, Poway, CA 92064
(858-748-0245) Map - Website

Abraxas High School (Alternative Education)
12450 Glen Oak Road, Poway, CA 92064
(858-748-5900) Map - Website

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Wikipedia - Poway, California

Poway is a city in San Diego County, California, United States.

Artifacts such as arrow heads, spear points, metates, grinding stones, and pottery found along the bed of Poway Creek all indicate an early Diegueño presence. Various pictographs adorn many of Poway's boulders, and modern techniques suggest that these paintings date back to the 1500s or earlier. Poway's contemporary history began in 1758, when padres from the Mission San Diego de Alcala kept cattle in the valley. The name "Paguay," one of many original spellings, appears on mission documents in 1774. The name, also written as Paguai, Paui, Pauai, Pauy, Powaii, and finally Poway, has incurred dispute as to its meaning. While one Native American linguist insists that it means “here, where the waters meet,” the consensus has traditionally translated the word as “the two little valleys.”

For approximately a century, Poway served as a stock range for the mission, until 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 turn of the century Poway farmers had moderate success in the production and vending of fruit, grain, and dairy products. Expansion, however, failed to follow agricultural success. Though the farmers prospered, the town existed in a static state for decades, varying only slightly in population, demographics, crop selection, and the like.

Poway has a creek and fertile soil, but the lack of easily available water prevented the settlement from attracting large-scale farmers and the accompanying population growth. Not until 1954 did the town establish the Poway Municipal Water District, which utilizes water from the Colorado River Aqueduct to irrigate all of Poway's 10,000 acres (40 km²). When water came to the town, people did as well. In 1957, following the sewer system's completion, developers built housing tracts, and modern Poway grew from there. In 1980 Poway incorporated and officially became the City of Poway (nicknamed "the City in the Country") rather than a part of San Diego. Poway no longer depends on agriculture for its primary source of income, and has instead transitioned into a residential community for those who work for employers in and around the San Diego area.

Agriculture

Though many residents today mistake Poway for an old Western-style cowboy town, its original roots lie in agriculture. The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged Westward migration, and accordingly many of Poway’s first white settlers came to farm. The fecund soil proved well-suited to a variety of crops, including peaches, Muscat grapes, apricots, pears, hay, and alfalfa. Some farmers captured swarms of wild bees and cultivated honey. Dairying also proved lucrative. Most families kept a cow for milk and butter, chickens for eggs and meat, and perhaps a hog to sustain them while they farmed. Crops sold well around the San Diego area. Between the seasons of 1894 and 1896, the Poway Progress reported bits of agricultural information such as:

Muscat grapes are beginning to ripen, and the San Diego market is getting a supply of the fine article Poway always produces. ... The season has been a prolific one for bees, thirty of forty stands the present season from a single captured swarm a year or two ago. ... The peach is a good article, and Poway produces it to perfection. Poway pears will compare with any grown in the state.

The success of these crops depended on the annual winter rainfall, however, and so remained subject to variations in precipitation until the establishment of the Poway Municipal Water District in 1954. With water readily available, the town’s farming interest shifted to two principal crops, avocados and citrus fruits. Ironically, despite the relative success of these ventures, Poway ceased to exist as a farming town once the water needed to make it a true agricultural haven appeared. With water came new residents, and the former farm town transformed into a locale full of small commercial businesses and modest shopping centers.

Religion

The Community Church of Poway, the town’s first church, has remained in operation since 1883. Today, Catholics, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Mormons constitute the majority of Poway’s religious demographic. There are two Catholic churches in Poway, St. Michael's and St. Gabriel's[verification needed] There is also a small Jewish community, with a Reform and a Conservative temple as well as a Chabad. In addition to that, there is a Sikh temple, one of several in San Diego, located in Poway.

Education

Poway established its school district in 1871, but did not have a schoolhouse until 1885, when a one-room schoolhouse was built at Midland Road about a 2-3 minute walk south of the Templar's Hall. The site is still in use today as an elementary school (Kindergarten through 5th grade), though it was torn down and rebuilt in 1945, and again in 2004-2006. First through eighth graders were included in one classroom. Children learned to read and write using slates, and eventually progressed to study subjects such as arithmetic, spelling, English, language (German or Latin), grammar, history, and geography. Students did not usually attend high school, and had to travel to Escondido if they wished to do so. In 1909, only three students from Poway graduated from high school. Women who went on to more school from there usually had teaching ambitions. Education, while compulsory and considered a worthwhile pastime, had few far-reaching applications for Poway’s farmers’ children. Enrollment in the Poway School first through eighth grades did not reach 100 until 1932.

Today, the Poway Unified School District (PUSD) has grown to more than 30 elementary, middle (6th through 8th grades), and high (9th through 12th grades) schools, and even has a home-schooling program. PUSD has a record of high performance, and one of its students, eighth-grader Anurag Kashyap, became the 2005 National Spelling Bee Champion after winning on the word "appoggiatura".

Transportation

Poway’s transportation history parallels that of early California. In 1888 the first stagecoach began to service the towns from San Diego to Escondido, including Poway. The stage made one stop in town, at the Poway Post Office, and also delivered mail to the farmers who would wait along the road for its arrival. The men would trot alongside the coach and inquire as to the state of the mail, and thus receive letters without requiring it to stop. Eight to ten passengers could accompany the stagecoach on its three-day journey for a modest $1.00 fee, or purchase a round trip for the bargain price of $1.50. The route itself, though not treacherous when passing through Poway, did pose a significant challenge to the team and driver at various points. Windy mountain trails often caused the stage to turn over, spilling both mail and passengers onto the rocky turf. The city of San Diego discontinued the stage line in 1912, when the advent of the automobile facilitated an easier and less time-consuming method of mail delivery. Poway established a County Road Station in 1920, to oil and maintain the roads so that automobiles could use them with ease. The road station remained in operation until 1961, when Poway achieved an 80% paved road rate. To this day, though, the town still boasts a number of dirt roads, for use by cars, horses, bikers, pedestrians, and hikers.


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