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…
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Before Azariel Blanchard Miller arrived, the land that would become Fontana was part of Rancho de San Bernardino, one of the many local ranchos in the area. In 1853, San…
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…
Lytle Creek, which has a history of mysterious sightings, is an unincorporated community in the San Gabriel Mountains within San Bernardino County. Several neighboring cities, such as Fontana, Rialto, Colton…
San Bernardino County employees participated in the Great ShakeOut. The Emergency Services and County Museum’s Great Shakeout event. One Tap Closer to Preparedness with the Ready SB County App When…
The original San Antonio Hospital in Upland was located at the corner of San Antonio Avenue and Arrow Highway. Dr. William Howard Craig served the Upland community as a general…
The Goldstone Visitor Center in Barstow. Credit: NASA. In 1880, gold was discovered about 30 miles outside of Barstow in San Bernardino County. A small town was developed around the…
Hesperia Inn, circa 1915. In 1887, the California Southern Railroad, which later became the Santa Fe Railroad, completed tracks through the area and established a town site with a small…
