Two small lakes, surrounded by several small cottages, will become the east anchor of Two Canyons Parklands, offering recreation, hospitality, and information, including a small museum about the two canyons.
The El Casco parcel is an area originally settled by Horace Frink in the 1850s. His brother built a house and ranch there that became a freight hauling operation that extended from the San Pedro Harbor into Arizona. They also built a stagecoach stop for the Bradshaw Road and they gave the land for the San Timoteo Canyon Schoolhouse.
Also adjacent was a Chinese labor camp for the construction of the railroad, a water tower stop for the railroad steam engines, a railroad maintenance line camp, and a village of the Indigenous people.