EastLake Real Estate and Homes
EastLake Real Estate and Homes
EastLake is comprised of many different EastLakes. There is EastLake Hills, EastLake Shores, EastLake Greens, EastLake Trails, EastLake Vistas, EastLake Woods, wich includes “The Gates at The Woods by EastLake” and The Summit at EastLake.
EastLake is part of the City of Chula Vista and comprises 3 different zip codes:
EastLake 91913 (Includes EastLake Hills and EastLake Shores)
91913 also includes Otay Ranch and College Estates.
EastLake 91914 (Includes EastLake Trails North, EastLake Woods and Gates)
91914 also includes Rolling Hills Ranch and San Miguel Ranch
EastLake 91915 (Includes EastLake Greens, EastLake Trails, EastLake Vistas, The Summit)
91915 also includes Windingwalk in Otay Ranch
EastLake California - A Brief History
In the early years of San Diego and Chula Vista there was vast acreage of San Diego County that was an open range sprinkled with roaming cattle. Rancho Janal was an early ranch in San Diego County east of Chula Vista. It was comprised of 4,436 acres of ranch land. Janal is an Indian word meaning “spongy ground” - because of underground streams that covered the land. The old Rancho Janal Ranch is now the 3,200-acre master-planned community of EastLake.
In the year 1846 after the Mexican-American War that once and for all decided the ownership of California to be part of the United States of America, Chula Vista area ranch owners hat to prove that they owned the land that they ranched on. The land grants from Mexico were not a 100% guarantee that the United States would recognize them as the rightful owners. In 1872 Don Jose Guadalupe Estudillo received title to the Janal land grant.
Rancho Janal became the site for both the upper and lower Otay Dams and Reservoir, built for the Southern California Water Company in 1900 and 1901. The dams were built by E.S. Babcock, who also built the Hotel del Coronado in 1888. Henry G. Fenton, a subcontractor of Babcock, bought Janal in 1926 and farmed its 3,000 acres, growing lima beans and barley.
“During the Great Depression, when dad was growing lima beans on the ranch, he would turn the fields over to the needy, once the harvest had been completed,” Fenton’s daughter, Emily remembers. “There still were thousands of beans lying on the ground, and people would flock to the ranch by the hundreds to scoop them up into sacks to take home.”
When Fenton died in 1951, he left the ranch to Emily, who then married Navy Rear Admiral Louis H. Hunte. Emily later married Dean Black. She attended the groundbreaking ceremonies for EastLake with her son, Henry Hunte, ” where we get the name Hunte Parkway” became president of Western Salt Company, the company founded by Fenton. “Western Salt has had a long-time desire to see the property developed into a quality planned community - one that my grandfather would have been proud of. The EastLake Company is accomplishing that goal,” Hunte said. The EastLake Company is now sole owner of the land.
If you would like more information on EastLake and EastLake Real Estate please contact us.
Dawn Lewis
“Your Personal Real Estate Consultant for Life”
619-981-3917
San Diego Real Estate
All information is believed to be correct but not guaranteed.
