Editing Oceanside, California (section)

===American era===
[[File:View of Oceanside at the turn of the century.png|thumb|View of Oceanside at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries]]
[[File:Ocean Americanization (cropped).jpg|thumb|The [[Americanization School]] was built in 1931 as a [[School segregation|segregated school]] which aimed at [[Americanization (immigration)|Americanizing]] Oceanside's [[Hispanic Californians|Hispanic community]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oceansidechamber.com/2/post/2015/10/gem-in-the-center-of-crown-heights.html|title=Americanization School - GEM IN THE CENTER OF CROWN HEIGHTS|website=Oceanside Chamber of Commerce}}</ref>]]
In the late 1850s, Andrew Jackson Myers, an emigrant from Illinois, lived in [[San Joaquin County, California|San Joaquin County]], but he returned in the late 1880s and lived in [[San Luis Rey]]. In 1882 Myers moved on the land that was the original townsite for Oceanside. A patent for the land was issued in 1883 by the federal government.<ref name="plaque">{{cite web|url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Oceanside_plaque.jpg|title=Image:Oceanside plaque|date=July 17, 2006 |access-date=July 17, 2006}}</ref> It was incorporated on July 3, 1888. The city hall as of the early 21st century stands on the former Myers homestead.<ref name="plaque"/>

The town post office contains an oil-on-canvas mural, ''Air Mail'', painted in 1937 by Elsie Seeds. Federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the [[United States]] through the [[Section of Painting and Sculpture]], later called the [[Section of Fine Arts]], of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|Treasury Department]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Arnesen |first=Eric |date=2007 |title=Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History |volume=1 |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |page=1540 |isbn=9780415968263}}</ref>

Oceanside continues to be known as a vacation home market.<ref>{{cite news|last=Fletcher|first=June|title=The Hottest Vacation-Home Markets: Second homes are sizzling; We tell you where—and why|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=June 13, 2005|page=R1}}</ref>

In the 2010s, several mid-rise and high-rise housing and lodging projects were completed in the downtown area, with more to come. In 2021, two large [[Hyatt]] resorts were completed, bringing more tourists to the city.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tan|first=Michael|date=March 5, 2019|title=San Diego's Oceanside to open two upscale resorts operated by Hyatt|url=https://www.hotelmanagement.net/development/san-diego-s-oceanside-to-open-two-upscale-resorts-operated-by-hyatt|access-date=June 22, 2021|website=Hotel Management|language=en}}</ref>