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2. Lake Hemet - Wikipedia

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   Lake Hemet is a water storage reservoir located in the San Jacinto Mountains in Mountain Center, Riverside County, California, [1] with a capacity of 14,000 acre-feet (17,000,000 m 3) [2] of water. It was created in 1895 with the construction of Lake Hemet Dam. [3] Originally built by a private company, today it is owned and operated by the ...

3. Hemet, California - Wikipedia

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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 ...

4. Lake Hemet Dam - Wikipedia

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   Construction of the Lake Hemet Dam began on January 6, 1891, by the Lake Hemet Water Company. Construction was completed in 1895. When built, the Lake Hemet Dam was the largest solid masonry dam in the world at a height of 122.5 feet (37.3 m) until it was surpassed in height by the Roosevelt Dam in 1911.

5. Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians of California

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   The portion of the Twenty-Nine Palms Reservation (33°42′38″N 116°11′12″W) in San Bernardino County was established in 1895 and occupies 402 acres (163 ha). [2] It is adjacent to the city of Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree National Park. The Riverside County reservation was shared with the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians prior to 1976 ...

6. Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians - Wikipedia

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   The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of the Cahuilla, located in Riverside County, California, United States. [3] The Cahuilla inhabited the Coachella Valley desert and surrounding mountains between 5000 BCE and 500 CE. With the establishment of the reservations, the ...

7. Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians - Wikipedia

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   Reservation. Location of Santa Rosa Indian Reservation. The Santa Rosa Indian Reservation, not to be confused with the Santa Rosa Rancheria, is a reservation in Riverside County in the Santa Rosa Mountains, near the town of Anza. It is 11,092 acres (44.89 km 2) acres large. [1] It was established in 1907.

8. Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians - Wikipedia

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   The Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians is a federally recognized tribe of Luiseño people, headquartered in Riverside County, California. On June 18, 1883, the Soboba Reservation was established by the United States government in San Jacinto. [5] There are five other federally recognized tribes of Luiseño people in southern California.

9. Pechanga Band of Indians - Wikipedia

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   Acting as a self-governing population, the Payómkawichum inhabited much of present-day Southern California. Primarily occupied alongside the Kumeyaay nation, Luiseño ancestral territory stretched far, as such loose ownership of land expanded as far north as present-day Riverside, east as present-day Hemet, as south as present-day Carlsbad, and as west as San Nicolas Island. [6]