I never knew this existed and I’ve driven down that road dozens and perhaps hundreds of times. San Marcos has been “home” to me since my grandparents moved there in 1942.

Crazy, I went to San Marcos high and never knew this existed. I live in Colorado now, but I’m really enjoying this channel. Learning about so much history from north and east county where I grew up.

Wow! I lived in Murrieta and worked in San Marcos for 5 years. Drove by this almost every day, and did not know about it. Thanks, for the video!

My dad worked for the city of san marcos for like 30 plus years, and i remember the original grave site that was there.

Thank you for posting. I am a Tico descendant and did not know this.

Here in Virginia it is simply illegal to move or build over a cemetery. Thus there are cemeteries in some unusual locations, including in the parking lots of both the Kings Dominion and Busch Gardens amusement parks and on the compounds of several federal installations.

Sidetrack adventures I subscribed to your channel after watching this video. It's just the right content, short and nice. Very good narration too!

My aunts and great aunts were the ones who fought for this. We also have family buried along the Mission San Luis Rey walls, across Mission Ave. at the Pioneer Cemetery and along HWY-101 at the Oceanview Cemetery, we're an old proud family of the area.

I used to work in the industrial park right there. Pretty cool. There are also a few historical sites in the Elfin Forest and around Questhaven road. Like the old Elfin Forest campground. All facilities are long gone but there are still concrete foundations and a few trailer power poles still there. I haven't been able to find any pictures of the campground while it was in operation, but, I do know that it was a very popular spot until 1976 when heavy rains caused the creek to flood and pretty much wiped out the campground. There is some cool stuff in the Elfin Forest. The old jail by Harmony Grove is pretty cool too.

I guarantee you the City of San Marcos never put in a crosswalk just to spite the families for causing so many headaches.

I drive by this area at least once a week and even lived down the street from here for a few years and although I did notice the stone monument, I’ve never noticed the floor mark in between the driving lanes and probably would never have even known it was there until this video was recommended to me. There are also preserved stagecoach buildings close to here, one down the street from here hidden away in a meadow surrounded by industrial buildings, and then another one at stagecoach park. Those two buildings are also an impressive relic of time, makes you wonder what those hills would have looked like unscathed all those years ago.

I forgot about this. I use to live right up the street and drove by this every day. I remember my mom telling me about it when I was young.

Wow I've driven by this so many times...Next time I'm going to take a look love this local history

The cemetery for Mission San Luis Rey is right on the side of the 76 at Rancho De Oro. However, the most absurd cemetery location I have ever seen is the cemetery in Aiea, HI that is INSIDE a cloverleaf ramp. The freeway was driven directly through the old town, and the cemetery is all that was saved.

Wow ! I've lived here my whole life. Born and raised and I never even knew that, they dont teach us local history in schools here, they should though. I also recently learned about a murder house from the 1990s that used to be a couple minutes away from where I live, wow.

WOW! I thought I knew everything about my home town! Graduated from SMHS in '85... had no idea about this! I live in Murrieta now but travel RSF Rd. A LOT because family still live out there. I love that the family fought to keep the history alive and I hope someone will do the same with the pink house sitting in the open field of Via Vera Cruz / Discovery St. That place is being torn up now to create more lanes and to build a bridge so we can drive over the road when it floods out each rain season. I wish developers would leave SM alone! We don't need any more traffic and certainly don't need every bit of history destroyed.

San Marcos,my home for the past 15 years. Love it here

What a unique find! Thanks for sharing!

I think calling this a cemetery is a bit generous. I remember driving past the graves on my way to work around 1980. I think there were two of them. It was in disrepair. They had a tree branch fence surrounding them. Then all of a sudden one day it was cleaned up and some fresh paint too I believe. I figured at that time the city must be wanting to widen the road. There had to be a reason for all of the sprucing. Glad to see a compromise was made.

Remember seeing the old grave markers on the east side of the road during the widening. Always wondered what happened to the graves.

I live right down the street from there, and see that monument in the middle of the road every day. Once I even got of my car to look at it. Even then it did not click that people were actually buried there.

40 years. I vaguely remember the little cemetary. and i completely dont remember the seeing new one. thanx!

I drove that road almost every day for work in both directions ! Had no idea THANK YOU ! THANK YOU FOR THERE FAMILIES SHOWING LOVE 👍🏻

We have a cemetery in Spring, TX directly next to interstate 45. The state had to make a slight dogleg around it when building I-45. I never knew it was there but for gridlocked traffic. Wunsche Cemetery.

I drive past this every time on my way to and from work, never even noticed it.

I remembered seeing the old wooden crosses of the Graves before they widened the road. Always wondered who was buried there. Now I know. Thanks!

Great shot of the juxtaposition of the beautiful old rolling hills and next to it the nondescript new apartment building. We drive by so much history every day. Thanks for sharing brother!

Hopefully they can Rest In Peace. 🚗🏎🛻🚛🚑🚙🚌🚐🚎🚘🚖🚃🚚🚛🚜🛵

I’ve lived in San Marcos off and on for over 40 years (in Reno NV now), and never ever knew this. Thanks for posting.

I live in SM about 17 years and I didn't know that 😳 Thanks for the video.

Interesting, will check it out next time I drive by.

Drive by it once a week and never new! TY

I remember driving by sometime in the late 70s and seeing two crosses in the middle of the road there. Unfortunately I never took a photograph.

Thank you. Left San Diego in 82, always shocked when I return at how much of that gorgeous back country I explored is now housing and strip malls.

I grew up in Escondido and use to go out to Questhaven and rock diving at 3 falls.... And never knew about the cemetery..... Great channel, keep it up.

I live a block away from there and never noticed! Great video!

I've driven past there dozens of times without knowing. Thanks. Good work.

This is awesome. I live in San Marcos and never knew this!

Thank you for this information ❤

Amazing... I drove RSF Rd as my short cut commute to Encinitas every morning for 3 years, I never noticed it. Now, I will have to make the five minute jaunt over to check it out, thank you for posting!!!

There’s graves under the street in Old Town San Diego. They have little markers.

Thank you so much for this.

Wow never knew that was there some really cool history thanks for sharing

So sad. Thanks again for an interesting video.

Wow I drove past this for a jobsite for months and never knew it was there. Thanks for the awesome piece of history.

Totally unrelated to this episode; have you done a video or two on the metal sculptures done by Braceda and paid for by Avery (until he passed away some years ago). Everyone thinks the crown jewels of San Diego are La Jolla, the beaches, Balboa Park, etc. This is truly a hidden treasure of SD County.

This is so cool I’ll have to go check it out this weekend

I miss living in San Marcos. I was raised in that city for over 30 years and I never knew this

I grew up in SoCal and I never realized how wide suburban roads are. That road is almost as wide as a NYC block between numbered streets.

Interesting been living in san marcos for 20 years and didn't know 🤔 thanks for sharing 👍

Thank you bro I drive by that all the time I'm going to stop and check it out

Thank for sharing ❤️

I love it. Good for them. I will stop by if I ever get brave enough to enter California

I live in san Marcos ca and never noticed this omg what a suprise so next time I'll keep an eye on the road

Thank you. I live locally and I never knew about this until now.

Very interesting video. For many years before they widen the road, there was the grave site with a cross on the east side of the road. In the Reader Newspaper it had always been a question as to who the cross belong to. If you travel south on RSF Rd. and make a left into the industrial park on La Costa Meadows Dr. on the San Marcos Creek there is the ruins of an old Adobe ranch house. Now covered to protect it. Further south on RSF Rd in the Stagecoach Park there is also the ruins of the old Adobe Ranch house that was part of a Spanish Rancho.

I've lived here all my life and I never knew about this... this is so interesting

I recently found your channel. I New Smyrna beach, Florida. There's a golf course with a graveyard in the middle of one of the fairways. There are signs everywhere saying to play over the graveyard.

We got a cemetery on I 45 north in SpringTexas. Right on the feeder!!!

Its crazy i didnt even know it was there. Its cool so see how many ppl have good memories of this place :)

Driven past here many times and I had no clue! Wow! 😮

I drove through San Marcos many times and I never heard of this. How did you hear about it?

I remember seeing the graves o the side of the road way before it was widened. I always wondered who was buried there. Nice to finally know

I remember when it was on the east side of the road up untill about 1993 or so...untill all the transplants showed up.

I love in this area and have travelled that road for 30yrs nearly in a daily. I would drive by in the back of my parents car as a kid and thru my teen yrs always aware of those crosses and had known what they meant after some finding out thru working in a bank nearby that was a senior committed area, and they'd tell me what it was about. I've always followed the news in reference to when widening that road came into talks in town (Encinitas, La Costa and San Marcos). I always knew that that would be a history of someone/peoples' graves that were there and concerned what would happen to the history of it. Though this video caught my eye when I was researching birds in the area, I knew that they were someone's family and that it had ALWAYS been respected and protected. I followed the families' law suits and struggles to keep it somehow where it was for years. I was kinda disgusted when it got approved and wondered what it was exactly that made it so the law suits failed.

That’s pretty cool. Had no idea.

Amazing I've driven past for 10years and would've NEVER known...

This was going to questhaven. It was so mysteriously beautiful, now it’s just full of houses.. it’s sad!

That’s wild I live down the street and had no idea

That's my street I live there I'm not lying 📌

Engine blew up in my truck and left me stranded on the side of the road there decades ago. Never knew I was right next to this.

Wow. I live a couple of miles down RSF road and have driven past this hundreds of not thousands of times. I even ride my bike much slower past that area and have never noticed the monument.

I went to Palomar college in S.M.....nice area

I had always know about the original cemetery there before it was all developed but never knew what had happen to the graves. Know I do . Right on! Now i can RIP.👍😎

Aww man I live here and pass by every day never knew that thats crazy

Lived here my whole life and never knew about this

That's cool. Your videos are great. I was wondering if you did a video on the small cemetery thats located near the end of 56. I don't know if it's there still but I remember riding my bike on a trail that started from black mountain road to del mar. I was always curious about that small cemetery. Let me know if you did a video on it. I'll watch it and give you more thumbs up. Lol

I remember when it was just 2 wooden crosses, before they expanded the road.

very interesting

Its cool that the cemetery was preserved.

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I'm glad they preserved it but it's kinda sad knowing your ancestors are buried in the middle of the road. Kinda like how Toto got buried by a parking lot.

You ought to do one on Old Town San Diego, There are graves UNDER San Diego Avenue. Very strange indeed. El Campo Santo Cemetery

I literally drive by there every day for school how’d I not know this

Good to know, I always thought they built the roads over the graves.

I Love San Marcos, I’m currently going to college right near hear @csusm

I had no idea this existed

In Savannah, GA; there are graves in the runway @ their airport

May the rest in Peace. And drive safe.

Many cemeteries are moved to make way for roads and often they miss a few bodies. There could be bodies under that roadway.

So much for resting in peace

Theres tons of cementerys that got covered up in san marcos what makes these ppl so special

Ayo wut. Been here for years and driven right by it omw to the gym. Had no clue!

Bro, I literally stay 10 mins from there !

i literally live right there

I always wondered what that was.

New subscriber, I live in San Marcos too lol.

Isn’t there also graves in the streets in downtown SD as well ? I believe they are marked too

There’s a grave in Wisconsin that is in between the road I believe, or its in indiana..

I live in those condos. Now I’m going to have to save my house to rid it of angry spirits