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History Center News

Grape Day Festival 2025!

Grape Day Festival 2025!

Join us for Grape Day Festival 2025 on Sept. 13th from 12-6pm! Fun for the whole family!

New Office Hours

New Office Hours

New Blog Post

New Blog Post

Learn how the Escondido History Center got started!

PBS Explores the History Center!

PBS Explores the History Center!

PBS explores all Grape Day Park has to offer, including the Escondido History Center!

Vendors Wanted

Vendors Wanted

We need vendors for Grape Day 2025 happening Sept. 13th from 12-6pm! If you hand make your items, click the link below to apply!

Latinos in Escondido History Project

Latinos in Escondido History Project

Come share your stories as a Latino in Escondido!

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Museum Office

 Thursday- Saturday,

10:00am - 4:00pm

Occasional irregular hours. Please call in advance to confirm.

(760) 743-8207

Current Exhibits​

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  • Pioneer Family: Cassou Family Exhibit

  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles Exhibit

  • Vintage Camera Collection

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Tom Bandy General Blacksmithing and Wheelwright 

Tuesday & Saturday, 8:00am - 12:00pm

We are open for classes!

Click Here

Blacksmithing and Wheelwright activity can be seen most Tuesday and Saturday mornings in the Tom Bandy General Blacksmith and Wheelwright Shop. 

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Santa Fe Depot

Saturday, 12:00 - 3:00pm

Santa Fe Depot: 

 

 

 

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Pullman Train Car: Train Car Closed until further notice

  • Train Depot Office and Waiting Room

  • Historical Escondido artifacts and displays

  • Historical replica of the Sante Fe Railway route from Escondido to Oceanside with a H-O model train

  • Historical replica of mail service

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Victorian House

1st and 3rd Saturday, 11:00 - 2:00pm

  • A 1890 house, with a beautifully refurbished interior, duplicating the lifestyle as was seen in the early part of the last century.  

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ADDRESS

321 N. Broadway

(in Grape Day Park)

Escondido, CA 92025

MAIL

P.O. Box 263

Escondido, CA 92033

HOURS

Office

Irregular Hours, Call in Advance

Thursday-Saturday 10am-4pm

Museum Complex

Depot: Saturday 12-3pm

Victorian:1st and 3rd Saturday

11-2pm

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“Our Heritage is all that we know of ourselves;
what we preserve of it, our only record.”
    Philip Ward

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