Editing Lake San Marcos, California (section)

== History ==
There is considerable evidence of human inhabitation of the area long before the Spanish establishment of the [[Mission San Diego de Alcalá|Mission San Diego de Alcala]] in A.D. 1769. Native American tribes lived and flourished near the [[San Luis Rey River]] in the Late Prehistoric period.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Cultural and Historical Resource Survey Report for the K-8 Elementary School, Park Grading and Infrastructure Improvement Project, City of San Marcos, San Diego County, California|url=https://www.san-marcos.net/Home/ShowDocument?id=5788|access-date=June 16, 2020|website=san-marcos.net}}</ref> Much of this area was originally part of [[Rancho Vallecitos de San Marcos]]. On April 22, 1840, [[Juan Bautista Alvarado|Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado]] granted the 8,877-acre Rancho Los Vallecitos de San Marcos to Don Jose Maria Alvarado who married Lugarda Osuna, daughter of the owner of San Dieguito Rancho, Don Juan Maria Osuna.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Baker|first=Jacque|title=Images of America Lake San Marcos|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=1531676987|pages=7}}</ref>