Prado Regional Park in Chino. Major floods along the Santa Ana River in 1937 and 1938 prompted Congress to direct the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to design and construct…
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San Bernardino in 1862. Mormon settlers came to Southern California in 1851 because they saw the region as a valuable source of food for Salt Lake City. One of the…
USS San Bernardino County (right). San Bernardino County shares a history with the attack on Pearl Harbor through the USS San Bernardino and the ships that came after it. On…
Beale Wagon Road. Courtesy of Legends of America. Helendale is an unincorporated community located in the Victor Valley area of the Mojave Desert. It lies along historic Route 66, west…
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…
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…
