Lake San Marcos, California was created by a developer/builder back in 1962 --- the builders name Gordon Frazar, his vision was to do one last project before that would be his swan song. His aim was to get 'em talking.
So his decided to build a community around a pond down the street from a county garbage dump. He had a ton on skeptic's from the builders in San Diego to those up in Los Angeles. Lake San Marcos was the first master planned lakeside community in the United States back in the early sixty's. It was one of the first to market condominiums. It was the first in Southern California if not the country to install underground utilities and cable television lines for its residents.
Coming up on July 5, 2012 Lake San Marcos, will celebrate its golden anniversary. The center piece of this community is a 1-mile long man made privately owned lake. It started as a little more than an agricultural pond, created in the late 1940's when the previous landowner dammed San Marcos Creek with a 50-foot high wall of concrete so that he could water his onions, tomatoes and walnut crops year round.
Part II will discuss the creating of this Lake.
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