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With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho El Rincon was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1853, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and the grant was patented to Bernardo Yorba ...
Prado Regional Park is a 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2) park in Chino, California within the jurisdiction of San Bernardino County. It offers fishing, archery, camping, a golf course, horseback riding, and a shooting range, which was the site of the 1984 Olympic shooting events. The park traces its origins to the Santa Ana River floods of 1937 and 1938 ...
Prado Regional Park: San Bernardino, Riverside: San Pedro: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Francisco Sanchez: 8,926 acres (3,612 ha) 82 ND Pacifica: San Mateo: San Gregorio: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Antonio Buelna 17,783 acres (7,197 ha) 88 ND, 89 ND San Gregorio: San Mateo: Los Alamos: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Jose Antonio de la Guerra: 48,803 acres (19,750 ha) 83 ...
The Civil War Trust's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails. Sites on the trail include battlefields, museums, historic sites, forts and cemeteries.
The Battle of Palmito Ranch, also known as the Battle of Palmito Hill, is considered by some criteria the final battle of the American Civil War.It was fought May 12 and 13, 1865, on the banks of the Rio Grande east of Brownsville, Texas, and a few miles from the seaport of Los Brazos de Santiago, at the southern tip of Texas.
Congress authorized the Civil War Battlefield Preservation Act of 2002 [dead link ] tasking the American Battlefield Protection Program with producing an update to the 1993 Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report on the Nation’s Civil War Battlefields Archived 2018-12-19 at the Wayback Machine. Congress required that the update address ...
Town officials are seeking funding from various sources to construct an Isaac Woodard Unity Park on the site of the former jail. The town hopes the site will be added to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail.
Chino (/ ˈ tʃ iː n oʊ / CHEE-noh; Spanish for "Curly") [7] is a city in the western end of San Bernardino County, California, United States, with Los Angeles County to its west and Orange County to its south in the Southern California region.