San Bernardino, California, was named in 1810.
Video History of San Bernardino, California
The earliest inhabitants
The earliest known residents of San Bernardino are the Serrano Indians (Spanish for "mountain people") who spend their winters in the valley, and their summers in the cooler mountains. They are known as "Yuhaviatam" or People of the Pines. They have lived in the valley since about 1,000 BC. They live in a small brush-covered structure. By the time the Spaniards first visited the valley, about 1500 Serranos inhabited the area. They lived in villages of ten to thirty structures called by the Spaniards as rancheras.
The Tongva Indians also call the San Bernardino Wa'aach area in their language.
Maps History of San Bernardino, California
Spanish California
The Spanish Military Commander California Pedro Fages probably entered the San Bernardino Valley in 1772. Father missionary Pastor Francisco Garcà © s entered the valley in 1774, as did the Expedition de Anza, though not in San Bernardino at this time but further south.
The traditional (since there is a dispute about the following events) the establishment and naming of San Bernardino is that Padre Francisco Dumetz, a Franciscan priest, traveled from the San Gabriel Arcangel Mission to San Bernardino Valley on May 20, 1810, the feast of Saint Bernardino of Siena (translated "San Bernardino de Siena" in Spanish) during the California Mission Period. That year, the Politana, the first Spanish settlement in the San Bernardino Valley, was established as a mission chapel and a supply station for travelers on the road to California from Sonora, by Mission San Gabriel on a farm of the Guachama Indians living on a cliff now known as Bunker Hill.
California Mission
In 1819, the Mission of San Gabriel created an estancia, San Bernardino de Sena Estancia, in an Indian rancheria called Guachama, a place in Redlands, California, and modern Rancho San Bernardino. A group of adobe buildings was built around 1830. Mill Creek zanja , an irrigation ditch from Mill Creek to the site, excavated by the local Indians for the Franciscans. The site was closed when Governor Figueroa closed its mission system in 1834. This site will be known as "Old San Bernardino." Today, this site is known as San Bernardino (historically inaccurate) Asistencia .
Jedediah Strong Smith entered the valley with 15 trappers in late November 1826 en route to Mission San Gabriel, crossing the San Bernardino Mountains via the Mojave Trail route over the Peak Monument.
The expedition Antonio Armijo first established the Old Spanish Trail trade between Nuevo Mexico and Mission San Gabriel in Alta California in 1829-1830. Their route enters San Bernardino Valley with Armijo route called "CaÃÆ' Â ± on de San Bernardino" from the top of the western Mojave River through Cajon Pass and down Crowder Canyon and then Cajon Canyon. This route is known by the vaqueros of San Bernardino de Sena Estancia who came to help Armijo's party with food. This route ran along the Crowder Canyon path to his mouth at Cajon Canyon and down into the canyon's mouth at Sycamore Grove.
Kit Carson and a group of trappers passed the Cajon Pass in 1830. The Cajon Pass is used by many early explorers, settlers, and merchants who go to places in the west.
Rancho Period
After the Mission system was dismantled by the Mexican government in 1833, several prominent Southern Californians sought to acquire Rancho San Bernardino. In 1837, Antonia Pico and Andres Pico made the application for the land, but were rejected. Ygnacio Palomares, proposed the right to feed the cattle in the eastern San Bernardino Valley. Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado rejected the application. Instead, the governor approved the settlement plan by Antonio Maria Lugo. Lugo's proposal was to colonize the San Bernardino area, a list of 27 potential settlers.
In 1839, Lugo's colonization permit was granted for 18 league lands. That same year, Lugo's family built an adobe house where the state courthouse is currently sitting today.
The colonization plan did not work. In 1841 Antonio Lugo prepared another petition. This time, he asked for a land grant on behalf of his three sons, JosÃÆ' © del Carmen Lugo, Josà ©  © Maria Lugo, Vicente Lugo, and friend JosÃÆ' © del Carmen, Diego Sepulveda.
On June 21, 1842, Rancho San Bernardino was awarded to Antonio Maria Lugo, his sons and nephew, who grazed about 4000-6000 cows in the area. This grant includes most of the San Bernardino valley, 37,700 acres (153Ã, km 2 ) in all. Adobe Lugo will later become the home of Amasa M. Lyman. His brother fixes Estancia and lives there. A community that grew up around the Santa Ana River in the northeast of Redlands will now be known as Lugonia. It lost its identity by November 1888 merging Redlands.
By offering the land, Lugo convinced a group of settlers from Abiquiu, New Mexico to settle on the rancho in Politania and defend it against Indian robbers and criminals preying on Ranchos in Southern California. These emigrants first colonized the Politana in Rancho San Bernardino in 1842. Don Lorenzo Trujillo brought the first settler colony from New Mexico to settle on the land provided by Lugos about half a mile south of the village of La Politana Indians. This colonist included William Workman, John A. Rowland (later owner of Rancho La Puente) and Benjamin Davis Wilson. After living two years in La Politana, Don Lorenzo and four other colony families were induced to move to 2,000 acres of land on the eastern side of the Santa Ana River, on the northern border of Rancho Jurupa offered to them by Don Juan. Bandini. The village is known as "La Placita de los Trujillos", which is then called La Placita.
In 1843, a second colonial party, led by Don Jose Tomas Salazar, arrived at La Politana. Among the settlers of this second colony were Louis Rubidoux and Christobal Slover, both of whom married Mexican women. In 1845, the Salazar colonists also moved to the Santa Ana River, a mile northeast of La Placita and there established a village known as Agua Mansa. To replace the New Mexicans as their cattle keeper, Lugo tribe brought the Mountain Cahuilla tribe under their leader, Juan Antonio, to settle in the Politana. They remained there until 1851, when they killed all but one from Irving Gang in San Timoteo Canyon. This is an American raider who invaded Ranchos in the valley and hunted on the orders of local justice for peace. Due to bad feelings among the American population due to this incident, shortly afterwards Cahilla moved east to a new rancheria at Saahatpa at San Gorgonio Pass near Banning, California.
Also in 1843, Michael White (also known in Spanish as Miguel Blanco), a Mexican citizen from England, was given Rancho Muscupiabe, named after the village of Serrano Amuscupiabit, "The place of small pine trees." Michael White built a house overlooking the Cajon Pass, but Native Americans from the desert stole his grazing supplies, and he left Rancho after nine months.
Mormon San Bernardino
In 1847, after the Mexican-American War battle ended, the US Army Mormon Battalion occupied San Diego and Los Angeles. A detachment of the Los Angeles army, led by Captain Jefferson Hunt was placed at the southern end of the Cajon Pass to protect the Mexican ranchos from Indian assaults. The battalion began at Council Bluffs, Iowa on July 10, 1846 and arrived in San Diego on January 29, 1847. Company C was sent to keep the Cajon Pass. On leave, Captain Hunt and others work for Rancho Santa Ana del Chino owner Isaac Williams. After the War, the Battalion returned to Utah. Many Battalion troops return to families in Utah through San Francisco and the Sacramento area. A group led by Hunt travels to Salt Lake City by passing the Old Spanish Trail through the Cajon Pass they know.
After rejoining his family in Utah, Hunt got a mailing contract between Salt Lake and Los Angeles. He also organized some cattle drives, bought stock from ranchos owners to deliver to Mormon a famine in Utah. That's when Hunt started his initial negotiations with Williams with the idea of ​​buying Rancho del Chino.
The Mormon leader Brigham Young sees Southern California as a source of supply for Utah, and as an immigration and stop-off between Salt Lake City and San Pedro, California. A group of nearly 500 Mormons left Utah to California in 1851. They found much water in the valley, along with willow, sycamore, cottonwood and mustard, as well as Yucca plants. The Mormon contingent is led by Captain David Seely (last Stake President), Captain Jefferson Hunt and Captain Andrew Lytle, and includes Apostles Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich. They first camped in Sycamore Grove, about 2.4 km (2.4 km) southeast of the current Glen Helen Regional Park. They stay until the sale of Rancho San Bernardino can be arranged.
In September 1851, Lugo sold Rancho to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). Rancho includes most of the modern San Bernardino among other areas, though parts of the northern areas of the City are part of Rancho Muscupiabe. The price for 40,000 hectares (160 km 2 ) is $ 77,000 with $ 7,000 down.
The Mormons built Fort San Bernardino at the site of this state courthouse. Inside the fort, they have small shops, and outside, they grow grain and other crops. They then moved outside the walls of the fort when the feared attack did not materialize. The Mormon Council Building was built in 1852. It was used as a post office, school, church, and county courthouse from 1854 to 1858.
On November 7, 1852, Colonel Henry Washington, deputy surveyor (contract with the US General Surveyor for California) surveyed the San Bernardino and Meridian Baseline from a point west of Mount San Bernardino, at an altitude of 10,300 feet (3,100 meters). Ã, m), east of the current Highland. The Base and Meridian Line serves as the initial survey point (known as the starting point) for all Southern California.
San Bernardino County was formed from Los Angeles County in 1853 based on Billboard Assemblyman Jefferson Hunt. Captain Hunt is the leader of the Mormon expedition.
In 1853, Mormon unfolded the current road network system, a mile (1.6 km) square, based on the Salt Lake City grid layout. Each block is 8 acres (32,000 m 2 ). The plan was laid out by Henry G. Sherwood, and assisted by Fred T. Perris. The east-west streets are numbered, from First Street to Ninth Street. North-south streets named Kirtland Street (then "A" street, then Sierra Way); Camel Street (then "B" Street, then Mountain View Avenue, Crafton Street (then "C" Street, then Arrowhead Avenue); Utah Street (then "D" Street); Salt Lake Street (then "E" Street); Street (later "F" Street), Independence Street (later "G" Street "); Nauvoo Street (then" H "Street), and Far West Street (later" I "Street).The Mormon also built its way in 1853 to Los Angeles, Mormon is responsible for the school system, creating Warm Springs, schools that are still in use today, as well as schools at the current Pioneer Park site.
The city of San Bernardino was first established on April 1, 1854. Mormon Apostle Amasa M. Lyman (later excommunicated, later reinstated after posthumous) was the first Mayor of the City. Apostle Charles Coulson Rich became the second Mayor. At the merger, there are about 1,200 inhabitants, 900 of them Mormons. They dominate local politics and prohibit drinking and gambling.
Mormons created the first wooden path to the mountains, and flour milling (on Mill Street). In 1855 they diverted water from Waterman Canyon to Town Creek using flume.
The Mormons created a temple block (but never a temple) in the midst of a newly built city between the current 5, 6, E, and F streets. They created "Public Fields", where they celebrated the 4th of July. Later, after Mormon returned to Utah, part of the land went to the Catholic Church, and some were handed over to Dr. and Mrs. Quinn. In 1873, Bishop Amat, bishop of the diocese of Los Angeles and Monterrey, gave the northern part of the block to the City. He was later called "City Park," then "Lugo Park" until 1915, when his name was changed to Pioneer Park, which is still called today. An Pavilion, a log cabin, and Municipal Auditorium (founded in 1921 in honor of the death of World War I) were all built in the park, although the pavilion and wooden cabins were burned, and the Auditorium was demolished in 1979. The Norman F. Feldheym Library was built on site in 1985. The park also contains two Civil War cannons.
Mormon named Arrowhead, natural rock formations above Arrowhead Springs, "Ace of Spades." On a clear day, the Arrowhead can be seen from downtown San Bernardino.
A small Jewish community formed in Mormon San Bernardino, including Lewis Jacobs and Marcus Katz in 1852. Lewis Jacobs was a miner and a traveling merchant. He co-owns a mountain sawmill, starts the original Bank of San Bernardino, and helps establish the Eternity Funeral Home. The service began in the 1850s, but the Congregation of Emanuel, still active today, was not officially hired until 1891, and its first structure was built in 1921. The Eternity Cemetery was given by the Mormons to the Jews. This is the oldest Jewish cemetery used constantly in Southern California. Marcus Katz is a trader and a civilian leader and the names of the four-storey Katz building (built in the 1890s) in Third and "E" Streets. He died in 1899.
There are 26 slaves in the first company, and more slaves are brought in because San Bernardino continues to grow. Since California is a free country, slaves should be released when they enter. However, slavery is openly tolerated. Many slaves can not read or write and do not know about the law. Judge Benjamin Hayes freed 14 slaves, including Biddy Mason, who belongs to Robert Smith, who claims he still has it. Other slaves are freed by their master.
Mormon recall
The Mormons were recalled by President Brigham Young returning to Salt Lake City in 1857. The reason for the failure of the community could not be found in only one basic cause: there were persecution of the Utan War (mostly exiled members), a short-lived Utah War , the recall of both Messengers, Lyman and Kaya, or the experience of the most recent member congregation. But the news of the Mountain Meadows massacre, which came to Mormon Road to Southern California, created a climate of fear, and hostility to Mormon there, where previously it was a good opinion of them in general. Given the previously-visited persecution in Mormon in Illinois and Missouri, this hostility affected about 2,000 of the 3,000 Mormons in the area to escape from California to Utah. They often sell their land only with the price of carts, teams and supplies to travel, well below the value of agriculture, factories and other well-managed businesses.
Another possible explanation to remember is Young's fear of settlements that compete with Salt Lake in better locations with a better climate with greater farming possibilities. Many Mormon migrants expect to go to California early on. Young may be heading there so far as indicated by the Mormon pioneer ship arranged by Samuel Brannan who has arrived in San Francisco from New York and is waiting for the main party there. The Mormon Battalion was also there, at the expense of the US Government Young had offered to manpower as a way to bring them to California. Brannan meets Young in Utah and tries to convince him to keep going. Young ignores his advice and stops in Salt Lake before he goes back east for the winter. Brannan returns to San Francisco. Young was later attracted to California as a source of supply and income of tithing from a Mormon gold digger. He is not happy with the big response in Utah to Lyman and Rich calls for San Bernardino. He was alert to the independence of Lyman and Rich and feared the mass migration from Utah to California. At one point, the guards were stationed around the settlements and along the way to prevent Mormons from leaving Utah at risk of being shot. Young, who has legalized the effort, undermined San Bernardino's operations almost from the start and guaranteed the failure and financial losses of investors by calling them back before the mortgage repaid, suppressing the value of real estate because it was rushing to sell. Many have made a great sacrifice for the Church being destroyed again by Young far from harmless acts. Many are forced to sell their property for a fraction of their original cost.
Although some Mormons remain, the mainstream Latter-day Saint structure was not rebuilt until the 1920s. The remaining residents lack the organization and resources to compensate for the mass departure of the dominant Mormon population, which destroys the local economy. The city is unrelated. Among the remaining people is Celia Mounts Hunt, wife of Captain Hunt. He died on January 28, 1897 and was buried in Pioneer Cemetery.
In 1857, three orange trees were planted in Old San Bernardino. They are not Washington Navel Orange who will then achieve great fame; they came in 1873 from Brazil to Riverside, California, then part of San Bernardino County.
The city continues to grow in the absence of Mormon, largely as a commercial center. Dr. Ben Barton arrived in 1858, setting up a drug store/adobe office on 4th and "C" (now Arrowhead Avenue) Street. Barton also became a postmaster, County Superintendent of Schools, and purchased the estancia currently on Barton Road in Redlands, and moved there with his family. He died in 1899.
1860s and 1870s
Gold was invented by William Francis "Bill" Holcomb at Holcomb and Bear Valleys in 1860. The booming city of Belleville briefly threatened to take the county seat away from San Bernardino. San Bernardino won by one vote.
California remained at the Union during the Civil War, however, there were many Confederate sympathizers in the area. A short battle between Unionists and Confederate sympathizers erupted in the mountains.
Stagecoaches of Phineas Banning had stopped in downtown San Bernardino during the 1860s.
The Great Flood of 1862 largely destroyed the early settlements of Agua Mansa, built in 1830 by the New Mexico people of today, Colton. The Catholic Church there was rebuilt in downtown San Bernardino in 1865. The wooden church was burned in 1878 and the others were built. The present church, on the corner of Fifth Street and "F" was built in 1910. The floods caused severe damage along the Santa Ana River creek, especially Lytle Creek. Topsoil drifted.
In 1864, "Dr. David Noble Smith set up a "nursing home" in the Arrowhead hot springs. In 1868, it had been enlarged to make the hotel. In 1885, he rented the property to Darby and Lyman from Los Angeles. Three days after Smith's death on March 17, 1885, the hotel was burned to the ground. Darby and Lyman combined the Arrowhead Hot Springs Company, and rebuilt a new hotel in 1886 for $ 150,000. After being expanded to 120 rooms, it was the largest hotel in the San Bernardino area until it, too, was burned on July 4, 1895. The third hotel was built by Seth Marshall in 1905. In 1930, it was purchased by a consortium of Hollywood types. In the days before air travel, it was marketed to Hollywood stars like Loretta Young, Mary Pickford, Spencer Tracy, and Humphrey Bogart. The forest fire destroyed the third hotel in November 1938. The present structure (the fourth hotel) opened in December 1939 at a cost of $ 1.5 million. This time, the hotel was six floors, and its opening featured Judy Garland, Al Jolson, and Rudy Vallee. However, World War II caused the hotel to be taken over as a naval hospital in 1944. After the war, Elizabeth Taylor spent her honeymoon with Conrad Hilton on the sixth floor. The hotel was purchased by Campus Crusade for Christ in 1962. It was used as the world headquarters until 1991. It operated as a Christian Conference Center in 1999. The city of San Bernardino is trying to attach the property into the City as part of its personal development and development back Arrowhead Springs. In 1894, Arrowhead Brand Mountain Spring Water began to be pumped from nearby locations, as it is today. However, Arrowhead Brand Water also comes from "natural mountain resources in the United States and Canada" because it was purchased by Nestle Waters North America, Inc.
A young Wyatt Earp and his family went to San Bernardino by train wagon, arriving in 1864. Virgil Earp then settled in Colton, California, where he became a city marshal. By the late 1920s, Wyatt became San Bernardino's Sheriff's Deputy.
In 1866, militia forces from San Bernardino killed Serrano's men, women and children in a 32-day campaign. The leader of the Yuhaviatam tribe Santos Manuel (from whom the name "San Manuel" came) leads the remaining Yuhaviatam from the mountain to the valley floor.
In August 1867, the first Chinese immigrants arrived in San Bernardino. In 1870, there were 16 young men, including Ah Wing and Jim Kang. They are laundry men, cooks, and houseboys, according to the Census. During the state depression in 1875, Caucasus residents of San Bernardino criticized China for suppressing wage levels. The Chinese were forced to move in 1878 to a Chinatown on Third Street between what is now Arrowhead Avenue and the Sierra Way. In the late 1890s, Chinatown San Bernardino had about 400-600 inhabitants. Many of its inhabitants work in crops, with agricultural land that will be the path of the Garden Baseline just east of Waterman Avenue. In the mid-1920s, Chinatown was largely abandoned. It became a site for Caltrans. When the Caltrans building was demolished, several Chinese artifacts were discovered. The site is being prepared for the parking lot, and is scheduled to eventually become the new central court building.
In the 1870s, City had several large stores and two hotels.
Although the first orange trees were planted in the area in 1857, in 1873 the first tree of Washington Navel Orange was planted in Riverside, then part of San Bernardino County. The area, like many others in Southern California, became associated with oranges. Orange still bless city cap today, and represents all farms in the City.
In 1874, the County established the first permanent courthouse built for the purpose, a two-story structure.
Race war, rise to local advantage
In 1873, The Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) wanted to put its footsteps in San Bernardino, however, the City and Railway could not make peace, so SP set up Colton, California and placed his footsteps south of San Bernardino. The city's first train was California Southern, built in San Bernardino in 1883. California Southern is a subsidiary of Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, and then incorporated into the system. The original Southern California depot was built in 1883 and destroyed by fire in 1916; it was replaced by the current Moorish-style station in 1918.
The San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad began serving San Bernardino in 1905, arriving through the Santa Fe trail right over the Cajon Pass. The railroad, soon renamed Los Angeles and Salt Lake, (LA & amp; SL) is used as its corporate logo as an adaptation of the famous natural arrow feature located north of the city. LA & amp; SL was fully acquired by Union Pacific Railroad in 1921.
The city is growing as a trading hub for local agricultural areas, including the vast citrus orchards in the area. In 1882, even before Los Angeles, the Opera House opened at the end of Court Street on "D" Street. It's a two-storey red brick building. It featured both light and large operas, dramas, musicians, and tour shows by the likes of Maude Adams, Lillian Russell, Al Jolson, and Sarah Bernhardt. It sits between 1,200 and 1,400. After being rejuvenated in 1912, it began displaying moving images as well. Opera House was demolished in 1927 to extend Court Street to the 1927 Court House on Arrowhead Avenue.
A political war over the construction of a new courthouse in the early 1890s at Court Street, as well as efforts to move the district seat, caused Riverside County and Riverside to break away from San Bernardino County. The courthouse was built on the corner of Court and "E" Street in 1892, replacing the 1874 courthouse. The Courthouse will be demolished in 1928 after building the current court building in 1927 along the court road at 351 North Arrowhead Avenue.
San Bernardino developed a red-light district that flourished on Jalan "D" in the city center, until it was closed in 1941 on orders from the War Department. It is said that the building to the north of the corner "D" Street and Court Street, built of bricks in the 1880s and known as the "Wixom Block" is where one of the brothels is; The small window is located at the top as a lookout. The 3rd Corner and D Street is known as the "Whiskey Point" with a saloon on every corner.
Chinatown developed on Third Street east of Arrowhead Avenue, and lasted until the 1920s. Its people grow the vegetables they sell.
In May 1886, the City of San Bernardino joined as a 5th class city (a distinction not yet observed by California law).
In 1891, in accordance with the Congress Act for Assistance to Indian Mission, the Indian Reservation of San Manuel was established. The reservation is and is located in the foothills of San Bernardino, originally on 657 acres (2.7 km 2 ) from the steep foothills to the top of Mount McKinley. The land was not suitable for agriculture and San Manuels lived in poverty until the opening of the Indian Bingo in 1986, and later casinos and bottling plants in the 1990s and 2000s. Reservation has been extended by federalization of land purchased by or on behalf of the tribe to just over 800 acres (3.2 km 2 ) today.
20th century
Around the beginning of the 20th century, there were 6,150 residents in the City of San Bernardino.
By "Centennial" San Bernardino in 1910, the population has risen to 12,779.
The first National Orange event was held in March 1911 in a tent at Fourth and E Streets and then moved to permanent place at Mill and E Streets. Residents often refer to "Orange Show Curse", because at least one extraordinary rainy day occurs during each Orange Show.
The city continues to grow generally in North and West Downtown. In the 1920s, the channel was built north of Highland Avenue and along Valencia Avenue.
Pacific Electric Railway reached San Bernardino by February 8, 1911 absorption San Bernardino Valley Traction Company that allows residents to easily travel to Los Angeles and surrounding areas. SBVT Co. itself consolidated with most of the street rail operations to and at the nearest Redlands in 1903.
Depression and Dust Bowls caused a wave of migrants from Oklahoma and Arkansas to arrive in San Bernardino to work in the fields in and around the City.
The Santa Ana River caused severe damage in the floods of Los Angeles in 1938.
World War II and consequently
World War II carried the Air Corps Air Force Base, San Bernardino Air Force Airfield, later named after Leland Francis Norton, a native of San Bernardino, was killed in his A-20 Havoc accident over Amiens, France in 1944 after rescue his crew. Ono Camp is an army base west of Shandin Hills.
The postwar prosperity, coupled with advanced railroad jobs, civil and military work at Norton, and at Kaiser Steel in Fontana, produced a large residential duct built in the northern and Del Rosa areas of the North City. At the same time, the San Bernardino City Redevelopment Board was formed in 1952 to deal with the Meadowbrook neighborhood southeast of downtown San Bernardino, Ca.
Redevelopment and decline
During the 1960s, the Inland Center Mall opened, attracting business away from the city center. Interstate 15 (now I-215) splits the city by means of no trains. Since the railroad is on the right lane, the rider can only exit westward with great difficulty. Mount Vernon Avenue, which has evolved as part of the interstate Route 66, begins to rot.
The urban renewal of the 1960s caused the former city center, Third Street, to wobble and be replaced with Central City Mall. The Harris Company, which had opened in 1905, and opened a magnificent building in 1927, was an anchor; J.C. Penney's and Montgomery Wards are two others.
Mayor Al Ballard made headlines as he completed a city fire truck with rifles in response to Watts Riot in Los Angeles, where shots were fired into fire trucks that extinguished the flames.
California State University, San Bernardino opened in 1965. According to former mayor Bob Holcomb, the city that gained the CSU campus was the tangible result of a successful fight with the Metropolitan Water District (MWD), where San Bernardino was a founding member. This was interesting in 1940 after plans for the Colorado River Aqueduct route through the Cajon Pass were changed for aqueduct route through San Gorgonio Pass in Riverside County, and then successfully sued by Orange County for the amount of water it used. After convincing the town that his groundwater was sufficient to withstand political pressure to rejoin the MWD, Holcomb was appointed chairman of the waterboard in 1949, and Lake Secombe was repealed to prove that San Bernardino had enough ground water to sustain further growth. As Holcolm said in a 2002 interview,
... As I get closer and closer to choosing a site for college, the city will not even... try, and Chamber of Commerce, I go to the Chamber of Commerce and ask them for, you know, for the committee and let's go to San Bernardino... They still say we have no water, you know, and this after the city has chosen to drop the MWD... I say, 'You have plenty of water.' No, however, my job, I formed my own committee to bring state universities. My main task is to convince the country that we have water and issue water issues from the agenda so that it will not shoot us the way people think it will.... We... get three or four large landowners to control all the land out there... to agree on a very reasonable price for their land and I get a choice from them that they will sell, you know, if the country is selected San Bernardino. Get the city to expose the road system and design a waterway system and engineer the water system and then all of this - and then they do all the testing you normally do to develop a ground test like a university. We have done all those things and we have a private engineering company doing a lot of work that is usually done by the state. The supervisory board meets, I think is in San Jose, and it will be one item on the agenda to choose a site. So I went to the meeting.... And I said, 'One thing, we have plenty of water. We can give you all the water you need. 'I... show them how the water is all right... And the rest slam... State state councils are the architect by name, I think, Charles Leckmen... He said,.. no competition. San Bernardino is by far the head of all the other sites that, that we do not have to worry about how much it costs, we do not have to worry about where the roads are going, and they choose that day to put it here - San Bernardino.
In the 70s, Hospitality Lane was first developed at the southern extremes of San Bernardino just south of the Santa Ana River, north of the 10 freeway. This puts additional pressure on the city center, a factor that continues to this day, but allows San Bernardino to compete regionally for office space and dollar taxes.
In 1977, the city was named "All-America".
The Hampshire Flood took forty homes in January 1980. In November 1980, the Panorama fire destroyed the northern hills of the City; in 2003 the Old Fire caused more damage from the east to the western border. The San Bernardino train disaster occurred in 1989 when the train stopped at Duffy Street, followed a few days later by an explosion in a nearby pipe.
Steve Wozniak, co-creator of Apple Computer, hosted the US Festival at Glen Helen Regional Park (in Devore) in 1982, and then again in 1983. County San Bernardino will later build the Pavilion Blockbuster (today, Hyundai). Pavilion) on this site.
The Norton Air Force Base was officially closed in 1994, an event that led to the loss of 10,000 military and civilian jobs. Renamed San Bernardino International Airport, it has no scheduled airline services and handled most air freight. Coupled with the early 1990s recession, Kaiser Steel's closure in 1985, and the relocation of the Santa Fe Railroad to Topeka caused the San Bernardino economy to decline. Community pride was increasingly hurt when gangs driven by LAPD suppression in Los Angeles moved to San Bernardino. The early 1990s saw an increase in the crime rate of San Bernardino as a middle class, especially those who worked in large companies or supported their workers, relocated.
The late 1990s and early 2000s experienced a slight increase in wealth for San Bernardino. The city built a small stadium league south of the city center. Arrowhead Credit Union became the leader of regional credit union banking and intends to build a new headquarters in the City. Stater Bros. Markets, the Fortune 1000 supermarket, began construction in mid-2006 at a large-scale distribution plant to replace the existing Grand Terrace location. Hillwood Corporation helped bring a large warehouse, including Mattel's, and Pep Boys, to its previous base and its surroundings. The Hub Project, an extension of Hospitality Lane, opened in 2004 and 2005. The theater tour went straight back to the California Theater. Despite being outside the City and owned by the County, The Blockbuster Pavilion (now San Manuel Amphitheater) took a national touring action to San Bernardino.
Recent history
In 2012, San Bernardino filed a chapter 9 bankruptcy.
Judge Patrick J. Morris defeated City Attorney James F. Penman in a Major election in early 2006. Judge Morris instituted a program called "Operation Phoenix" covering a twenty-block area downtown. The program is intended to prevent crime in high crime areas using suppression and social services.
In June 2006, the City Council defeated the action to fly large flags purchased after the September 11 attacks on certain legal holidays at the City Hall in a 4-3 vote. The measure failed on a 3-3 tie (with one board member absent) in May. City continues to fly two regular flags in front and above City Hall.
An initiative released by Save Our State leader Joseph Turner about illegal immigration was sent to voters. According to an impartial analysis prepared by the City Prosecutor's Office, many initiatives, even if passed, may be considered unconstitutional or will be replaced by federal or state law. Then, High Court Judge A. Rex Victor disqualified the size of the vote after City filed a decision-waiver action based on a challenge by local lawyer Florentino ("Tino") Garza. The court ruled that Turner did not collect enough signatures to qualify the size. Turner, acting on the advice of City Officer Rachel Clark-Mendoza, has based his number on the mayoral election of 2001 (where Judith Valles ran without resistance) instead of the 2005 mayoral election (contested). After the defeat, Turner vowed to bring a new, harder measure for voting, and he installed a campaign that ultimately failed to replace Clark-Mendoza, himself, as City Officer by stating that the alleged incompetence and/or corruption resulted in: collected income tax; rent of house without permission; and, absentee landlords who lowered property values ​​across the city.
Terrorist Attack
On December 2, 2015, husband and wife Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik committed a terrorist attack on the Center, resulting in 14 deaths and 22 . The shooters reportedly targeted the event for employees of the San Bernardino County Public Health Department, held in an auditorium with about 80 people. County has rented a conference center section of three building complexes. The shooter escaped from an SUV. The perpetrators were killed by police after the shots were exchanged for the SUV passengers. Farook had previously attended the event.
The history of San Bernardino today
The historic remains of San Bernardino still exist today, though much has been destroyed both through the natural advancement of small buildings that give way to larger buildings, through rebuilding the city and renewal, through natural disasters, through demolition of enforcement code, or through burning. Victims including the California Hotel (built in the 1920s, demolished for parking in the 1980s); Stewart Hotel (burned in the 1890s, rebuilt, burned on Thanksgiving Day 1935); The Platt Building (torn down in the 1990s for the new State Building (aka "Super Block"); Third Street (the city's commercial center, demolished in the 1960s for Central City (then Carousel) Mall, Carnegie Library; Pioneer Cemetery in the Seventh and Sierra Way, Harris' Company building (built in 1927), the central courthouse (built in 1926, and currently seismic), Pioneer building (model after Seville City Hall of Spain), High Court Judge home of George E. Otis (home of Queen Anne Victorian moved to "corner train" of 8 and "D" Street), Arrowhead Springs Hotel (fourth structure, built in 1939) and former vaudeville/cinema palace California Theater on Third Street, San The Bernardino County Museum has historical exhibits, including the Fort San Bernardino model, the house where the McDonald brothers lived while creating their first burger restaurant that still sits on a hilltop at B ever ly Drive.
See also
- Timeline of San Bernardino, California history
References
- Don Lattin, Chronicle Religion Writer (July 26, 1996). "S.F. The Mormon Devil Finally Gets His Stuff". San Francisco Chronicle .
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