Our 1883 Schoolhouse is also an archive with a large, curated collection of manuscripts, books and pamphlets, photographs, research papers, newspapers and magazines, as well as 400 old schoolbooks published between 1840 and 1930.

Anyone interested in pursuing a topic in local history is welcome to visit, by appointment, and may well benefit from our newly published Research Guide to Local History: North County San Diego.

We also welcome high school and college students who wish to do internships in archival work, museum curatorship, or local history.

Click here for our general introduction to DOING HISTORY and here for internship OPPORTUNITIES.

Click on these titles to experience a sample cross-section of 100+ materials we have on file:

La Paloma Theatre
The History of Water In The San Dieguito Water District
The Old Log House by Ardell Huntgate Hartman
The House That Water Built by Lloyd O’Connell

Documentary filmmaker Mark Freeman, Professor Emeritus, SDSU School of Theatre, Television and Film, has given us permission to present his short films about Encinitas here:

Edmunds Island
Families and Flowers
Lines in the Sand
Poetry Lives