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• Museum | El Cajon

Knox House Museum

• 280 North Magnolia Avenue, El Cajon, CA 92020 | Directions
• 619-444-3800

See how Amaziah Knox established a hotel serving drovers, miners, teamsters on their way through the valley. Museum offers display of historical photographs of El Cajon valley, furnishings of the time period (1879-1912) including a pump organ, rolltop desk, wood-burning cast-iron stove, furniture brought around tip of South America, a Thomas Edison phonograph, icebox, Hoosier cabinet, bed warmer, clothing, children's toys. Museum is open on first and third Saturdays of month, 11am-2pm.