Interstate 40 sign. Before the Interstate Highway System, a patchwork of country roads and trails connected the four corners of the United States. One of these routes was Beale’s Wagon…
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Nick and Virginia Earp. Colton quickly emerged as the railroad hub of the San Bernardino Valley, and by the 1870s, had grown to a population of 1,000 people. Among its…
San Bernardino in 1862. By the late 1800s, local entrepreneurs often created nicknames to attract railroads and miners in hopes of spurring regional development. It is believed that developers in present-day…
Brigadier General Harold Huston George. The former George Air Force Base was named in honor of Brigadier General Harold Huston George, who was killed in a ground accident on April 29, 1942, at Batchelor…
Historic newspaper clipping featuring the Harris brothers and the Harris Company building from The Sun newspaper, April 6, 1930. In 1905, two brothers named Philip and Herman Harris opened a…
Illustration of a street in Belleville from The Sun newspaper, Oct. 16, 1966. Thousands of aspiring miners, entrepreneurs and their families made the difficult journey to California during the Gold…
A.B. Miller on horseback as depicted in an outdoor mural in downtown Fontana. Photo courtesy of Mracew. Before Azariel Blanchard Miller arrived, the land that would become Fontana was part…
Mojave National Preserve Map from The Sun newspaper, April 14, 1995. For hundreds of years, travelers crossed the vast Mojave Desert by moving from one watering hole to the next.…
Second Avenue in Upland, 1900. Upland was originally part of the Ontario Model Colony founded by the Chaffey brothers. The unincorporated area of North Ontario was known as North Upland…
Downtown Sacramento following the Flood of 1862. From December 1861 through February 1862, a series of powerful storms driven by atmospheric rivers produced nearly continuous rain in California and surrounding…
