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The history of Vista is a colorful one, full of interesting people, places and events. It stretches back more than 200 years – to the days of the Spanish explorers and missionaries.
The recorded history of the region begins with the arrival in the late 1700’s of the Mission padres who traveled north from San Diego along the original El Camino Real – the King’s Highway – which actually passed through Vista on its way to the Mission San Luis Rey. In 1850, Col. Cave J. Couts, Sr., who later constructed the magnificent Guajome ranch house adobe, drew a map which plainly shows Vista on the original El Camino Real over which Portola, Crespi, Fages, and Moncado first traveled. Others who passed through Vista in its earliest days included Jebediah Smith, General Kearny, Commodore Stockton, Kit Carson, and Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, son of the Indian maiden guide of the Lewis and Clark expeditionary force.