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Now City of Corona Map with Corona and the Temescal Valley, California. The Corona Founders Monument is a monument built in 1936 to the founding fathers of the City of Corona in the Riverside County, California. The monument was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.738) on June 6, 1960. The monument is in the Corona City Park in the ...
In 1841, Cadwalader Ringgold, an officer in the United States Navy, spent twenty days surveying the San Francisco Bay watershed as a member of the United States Exploring Expedition In 1849, Cadwalader Ringgold began a more comprehensive survey the San Francisco Bay region, [11] the Sacramento River, and parts of the American and created several maps which included depth sounding information ...
List table of the properties and districts listed on the California Historical Landmarks within Riverside County, southern California. Note: Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Before 1768: An enlargeable territorial map of California tribal groups and languages prior to European contact within the modern day borders. Before 1768: An enlargeable map of the world showing the dividing lines for; Pope Alexander VI's Inter caetera papal bull (1493), the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), and the Treaty of Saragossa (1529).
Corona is Spanish for crown or wreath.Originally called South Riverside, citizens wanted to distinguish their city from the larger city of Riverside to the north. When it came time to incorporate the city a number of different names were considered, but the name Corona was chosen to play upon a unique feature of the city, the one-mile diameter drive that circled the center of the town.
Grand Boulevard Historic District sign, 2013. Grand Boulevard is a beltway in Corona, California that was recognized by the National Register of Historic Places in 2011 as a part of the Grand Boulevard Historic District. [2] It is an ordinary surface street that circles the city's historic downtown area and is approximately half a mile from the ...
Rancho La Sierra (also called La Sierra de Santa Ana) was a 17,769-acre (71.91 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Riverside County, California, United States. In 1846 governor Pio Pico issued the grant to Bernardo Yorba. [1] The grant lay between Rancho Jurupa and Rancho El Rincon, and included the present-day city of Corona. [2] [3]
A historical map may be: an old map (a map that is itself a historical artefact), see history of cartography a map depicting a specific historical period, see historical atlas