Real Estate
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Horse Heritage Retained
Equestrian communities
Marla Cooper, who co-owns JC Feed & Supply in
Lakeside, says the community still maintains its small town
Horsetown Highlights:
continue to thrive in
feeling, even though it is getting bigger. “In this town, a
handshake still means what it used to,” Cooper says.
East San Diego County
According to Bill Cuddeback, owner of Cuddeback
East San Diego County
Trailers in Lakeside, Eastern San Diego County has a lot of
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yet can’t afford to buy acreage out in the country.
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“People don’t have a lot of choices these days when it
For the Horsetrader
comes to horse property,” Cuddeback says. “But here, you
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ASTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY — In the not-too- can have the luxury of having your horses at home. Many
distant past, Eastern San Diego County was mostly people move to this area because of that.”
grazing land for cattle, dotted with small farm
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community, only 15 miles from downtown San Diego. Yet A vestige of the area’s horsy heritage is reflected in its
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despite its significant growth over the last 50 years, art scene. Several successful Western artists have called the
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Eastern San Diego still holds on to its agricultural roots. area their home over the years. Artist and sculptor Mehl
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The evidence? Horses are still a big part of life here. Lawson makes his residence here, while painter Olaf
Wieghorst lived and worked in El Cajon during his lifetime.
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■ Tight Knit Wieghorst’s legacy lives on in El Cajon in the Olaf
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Eastern San Diego County towns where the presence of Wieghorst Museum & Western Heritage Center, located on
horses can really be felt include El Cajon and Lakeside. Rea Street in downtown. The museum houses many of
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as only a San Diegan really can. American West. Other pieces of Wieghorst’s works are
Cathy Hanson, owner of DT Saddlery & Leather in El displayed in museums around the country, including the
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Cajon, has lived in the area all her life and has seen many National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in
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changes. “When I was a child growing up here, I rode Oklahoma City and the Whitney Gallery of Western Art in
everywhere,” Hanson says. “In Mission Valley, there was a Cody, Wy. A number of private collectors also own some of
stable that let us rent horses in exchange for us rounding Wieghorst’s original works.
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some of their free-ranging horses. There were dairy farms As soon as he retired in 1945, Wieghorst came out west
here, too, and people used to ride their horses right into and settled in El Cajon. He continued to paint and sell his
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Although many of the stables and dairies are long gone on the patio in front of his home after printing brochures,
from the area, horses still remain. Hanson describes the sending invitations to his friends, and advertising the event
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knit.” “Go to any of the boarding stables in the area and you roper, set up seating on bales of hay, and displayed more than
will feel that connection,” says Hanson. “Horsepeople stick
together here. They have an instant bond and camaraderie.”
Please see HORSETOWNS, Page 62
horsetrader.com
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