San Benito County History

This section is excerpted from A Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California by Henry D. Barrows and Luther A. Ingersoll, and published by The Lewis Publishing Company in 1893.

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San Juan and other Settlements.

In the modern town of San Juan has had a comparatively uneventful history. The building of the Southern Pacific railroad at some distance away from the old mission town drew much of the traffic which formerly centered there, to other points. The population of San Juan, in 1890, is given by the census at 463. The school census of 1892, gave the number of children under seventeen, only as 309, which at a three or three and one-half ratio indicates a present population of the district of nearly 1,000 souls. The trustees (1892) of San Juan school district are: John Breen, D. Wilson, G. S. Tremaine, and the principal of the school is F. S. Wallace. There is one, three-class school building in the district, and school is maintained ten months in the year.

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This section is excerpted from A Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California by Henry D. Barrows and Luther A. Ingersoll, and published by The Lewis Publishing Company in 1893.