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The George H. Jones family were the first European settlers in the area, arriving in 1886. Until 1923, the area had been called Lockwood Mesa. When [[Lake Hodges Dam]] was built in 1917–1918, the area began to develop rapidly. The creation of the {{convert|12000|acre|km2|adj=on}} Santa Fe Irrigation District in 1918 ensured that the area from [[Rancho Santa Fe]] through Solana Beach would prosper and expand. The coastline from Solana Beach to Oceanside began to boom in the early 1920s. In 1922 Colonel Ed Fletcher, an early community leader and developer, purchased {{convert|140|acre|km2}} at $20 per acre from farmer George H. Jones to develop the town of Solana Beach, with the help of his brother-in-law Eugene Batchelder. To provide access to the beach for the development, hydraulic water pressure was used to erode away tons of earth and create the Fletcher Cove entry and beach. This took one man three months with a fire hose, using water that was coming over the spillway at [[Lake Hodges Dam]]. The beach was opened with great fanfare including horse races on the beach on July 4, 1925.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ci.solana-beach.ca.us/ContentPage.asp?ContentID=89|title=The History of Solana Beach|access-date = June 16, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060826045615/http://www.ci.solana-beach.ca.us/ContentPage.asp?ContentID=89 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = August 26, 2006}}</ref>
The community grew slowly, but steadily throughout the rest of the century, with particular booms occurring in the decade after [[World War II]] and a real estate boom in the last quarter of the 20th century. In 1986 the community incorporated as the city of Solana Beach.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Solana Beach History {{!}} Solana Beach |url=https://www.cityofsolanabeach.org/en/community/about-solana-beach/solana-beach-history |access-date=2024-06-02 |website=www.cityofsolanabeach.org}}</ref> That year, the city hosted the funeral services for [[Desi Arnaz]], who had died in Del Mar. Arnaz's funeral was held at St. James Roman Catholic Church, part of the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego|Diocese of San Diego]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Parishes |url=https://sdcatholic.org/v-encuentro/parishes/ |access-date=December 5, 2023 |website=The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=By |date=December 4, 1986 |title=FUNERAL FOR ARNAZ IN CALIFORNIA TODAY |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1986/12/04/funeral-for-arnaz-in-california-today/ |access-date=December 5, 2023 |website=Orlando Sentinel |language=en-US}}</ref>
The city received national news coverage in 2003 upon becoming the first city in the [[Continental United States]] to enact a [[smoking ban]] on its public beaches, a trend which has continued as many other [[coastal California]] towns have followed suit in banning smoking on their beaches. Solana Beach was the last coastal community in [[North County, San Diego|North San Diego County]] to ban alcohol on the beach, doing so for at least a year in an action unanimously approved by the City Council.{{citation needed|date=February 2019}}
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