Paul Price will take walkers to early village sites on Audie Murphy Ranch

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Canyon Lake resident Paul Price, a professional artist who has spent his whole life collecting artifacts and documenting local history, is continuing to educate local groups about the mining history and early native history of the Lake Elsinore, Menifee, Perris and Temecula Valleys.

On Thursday, March 26, at 8:30 a.m., Paul will be taking a number of Canyon Lake residents on a tour of early village sites in the preserved area of Audie Murphy Ranch. To learn more about that outing, visit clfoow.webs.com.

Last weekend, March 13 and 14, he led a group of about 200 men on a tour of the Good Hope Mine and to a couple of native rock art sites in Perris Valley. The group belongs to the Billy Holcomb Chapter of E Clampus Vitus (ECV) 1069, a California registered 501c non-profit involved in sites of historical significance. It is a fraternal historical organization that, among other things, designs, builds and maintains a good number of historical plaques, markers and monuments around Southern California.

On March 3, Paul gave a lecture on “Site Migration in Lake Elsinore” to the Lake Elsinore Historical Society. He says, “It was well received and they were surprised by the disappearance of their prime sites within their city boundaries and what sites remain. I offered suggestions for their Society to keep the remaining sites from further destruction.”