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Cardiff: History
Hector Mackinnon, a Scottish immigrant who fought in the Civil War, brought his wife and four children in 1875 to the area we know as Cardiff. His homestead, of 600 acres, was on the north side of San Elijo Lagoon. Mackinnon hired a young schoolteacher, but lacking the funds to build her a schoolhouse, she had to teach at one end of his barn with the animals at the other end. In a letter home she recalled that the night she arrived, as she was getting off the stagecoach, she overheard a fellow passenger murmur, “God help the poor girl.” In 1911 Frank Cullen purchased part of the Mackinnon Ranch, subdivided it, and gave the streets the names of British cities such as Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh. About ten years later, music impresario Victor Kramer named the town’s “musical” streets after composers such as Haydn, Liszt and Mozart. Today Cardiff is a beautiful town with wonderful restaurants and spacious beaches and home to the annual Hansen Machado Surf Classic that enjoys an international field of competitors.
