On June 2, after waiting 27 years, the four-acre Vail Headquarters was successfully designated as a National Historic Site by the U.S. Department of the Interior.In formative meetings during 1996, members of the Vail Ranch Restoration Association discussed the merits of the location, based on the many significant people who passed through and the monumental historic events that took place at the Vail Ranch Headquarters. These include the Native presence, the Mormon Battalion coming through during the Mexican-American War, the hundreds of people who passed on the Southern Emigrant Trail en route to California Gold in 1849, Helen Hunt Jackson’s visit with Louis and Ramona Wolf, the presence of a Temecula Post Office and General Store in the true old town called Temecula, and the Vails
