BELLS OF THE GARDEN AT CAMULOS
CAMULOS, THE HOME OF “RAMONA” HEROINE OF HELEN HUNT JACKSON’S FAMOUS NOVEL
STURDY, SHADY, OAKS, SWIFT FLOWING STREAMS AMID A WEALTH OF GREENERY, MAKE A TINY EDEN OF THE BEAUTIFUL VALLEY OF OJA
Thus Joaquin Miller, poet and philosopher of California, sings:
Behold this sea, that sapphire sky!
Where nature does so much for man,
Shall man not set his standard high?
And plots for novels like Helen Hunt Jackson’s “Ramona,” are lived not at all infrequently. The old Del Valle ranch—Camulos—where the author of “Ramona” stayed for a while—is yearly becoming a more popular pilgrimage. It’s a quaint, low-porched, thick-walled adobe ranch-house, close by the train—a type in its way of the California life that is past.