 The Old Banner Toll Road connected the towns of Julian and Banner in 1871 , after a gold rush began in 1870 , and eliminated the need to manually lower supplies to gold miners down a 1 @,@ 000 @-@ foot ( 300 m ) slope . The county bought the road from Horace Wilcox in 1874 , and removed the toll . The road remained in service until 1925 , and remained operational until a flood in the winter season of 1979 – 1980 . By August 1874 , a road from Valle de las Viejas to Julian was open and accessible for horse teams . In the meantime , the City of Oceanside began discussions regarding a road east from Oceanside through the San Marcos valley . Efforts to realign the road from Ramona to Julian began in 1892 , when a county surveyor examined the prospect of shifting the road away from the Graves hill . 
