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Hemet was named by the land development company that founded the town, The Lake Hemet Land Company. The company drew its name from Hemet Valley, now called Garner Valley, located in the San Jacinto Mountains. Initially, the company referred to the area as South San Jacinto, but changed the name to Hemet when the land company filed a plat map on ...
The Hemet Maze Stone is a prehistoric petroglyph. It is just outside Hemet , in Reinhardt Canyon , within the Lakeview Mountains , in Riverside County , California . On April 16, 1956, Mr. and Mrs. Rodger E. Miller donated the stone, along with 5.75 acres (23,300 m 2 ) of associated land, to Riverside County. [ 1 ]
The Hemet Museum is located in downtown Hemet, at the intersection of Florida Avenue and State Street, housed inside the historic Hemet Depot. It contains exhibits of the area's history, Native American artifacts found in the area, and information about the valley's agricultural past. It also includes exhibits on the "Ramona" pageant, as well ...
Image credits: historymemeshq American history writer and author of Swastika Nation: Fritz Kuhn and the Rise and Fall of the German-American Bund, Arnie Bernstein, also agrees that comedy and ...
The Ramona Outdoor Play, formerly known as (and still commonly called) The Ramona Pageant, is an outdoor drama staged annually in Hemet, California, [2] since 1923. [3] It is loosely based on the 1884 novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson .
When it comes to history, we often think of it in monumental, tragic, or epic terms. But rarely does “funny” top the list. Which is surprising, considering how hilarious we humans can be as a ...
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The Hemet News, which at that time was a daily newspaper of 22,000 circulation, was sold by James Gill III to Donrey Media Group, on February 29, 1988, along with weeklies San Jacinto Valley Register, Moreno Valley Butterfield Express and Riverside County News Advertiser.