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4,175
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$141,827
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Carmel Valley Village, CA - History
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Welcome to the Carmel Valley Village Home page. The Carmel Valley Village Home page provides as much information as possible on Carmel Valley Village. Knowing Carmel Valley Village’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Carmel Valley Village’s Home page, you will also find Carmel Valley Village’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Carmel Valley Village has a population of 4175. 42.7% of Carmel Valley Village’s inhabitants are Male, and 57.3 are female. 57.8% of Carmel Valley Village is married and 75.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $921,224, and the average rent is $3,033. Household median income in Carmel Valley Village is $141,827, and the individual median income is $51,185. Carmel Valley Village’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.8%), Hispanic(6.9%), Multiple(3.4%), Black(2%), Asian(0.9%), Native(0.5%), Other(0.5%).
The Rancho Los Laureles, a 6,625-acre (26.81 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, was given in 1839 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado to José M. Boronda and Vicente Blas Martínez. The grant extended along the Carmel River and the Carmel Valley, and encompassed present-day Carmel Valley Village.
In 1882, the Pacific Improvement Company (PIC) purchased the Rancho Los Laureles. In 1916, Samuel F.B. Morse became the manager of the PIC; his job was to liquidate the PIC holdings (10,000 acres (4,000 ha)). In 1919, Morse formed the Del Monte Properties and acquired PIC. In 1923, the Del Monte Properties divided the land into 11 parcels.
Marion Hollins bought 2,000 acres (800 ha). In 1926, developer Frank B. Porter bought 600 acres (240 ha). He later acquired a portion of the Hollins ranch and sold it to Byington Ford. Ford and his wife Marion used 400 acres (160 ha) as a summer ranch and named it Moon Trail Ranch. It was located at Via Las Encinas in Carmel Valley.In 1946, Byington Ford and his brother, Tirey Ford Jr., developed the "Airway Village" that years later was renamed the Carmel Valley Village.
It included an Airway Market. By 1947, the Airway General Store, barbershop, drug store (with soda fountain), beauty shop, Stirrup Cup bar, and the Grapevine liquor store had been built. All were in walking distance of the Airpark and decorated to resemble a Mexican village. Artist Bruce Ariss painted murals on each store to resemble a Spanish village.Ford and his brother developed the Carmel Valley Airfield for pilot-owners who would want to be "at home a minute or two after getting out of their planes." His brother Tirey built a prototype hangar house off Ford Road at the west end of the airfield to serve as an example for the airborne community of the future.
Following World War II it became apparent that there would not be a plane in every garage, so Ford had to adjust his enterprise, combining sales to plane owners with sales to home seekers. He enjoyed a brisk trade. Only two true hangar houses were ever built at Carmel Valley Airfield: Tirey's (which later burned), and one other, on the north side of the runway which was dismantled.
Non-pilots bought up many of the runway Airpark sites, and to suit their many tastes Byington created ranch-house sites of 1 to 3 acres (0.40 to 1.21 ha) and envisioned hillside homes where residents could look down on incoming planes. During World War II, the airfield served as an alternative landing field for military planes flying out of Watsonville and King City.
A clubhouse built for the Airpark later became an integral part of the Village's Blue Sky Lodge, which is still in operation today.
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