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This category includes notable people who were born in, lived in, or are otherwise associated with, the city of Hemet, California. Pages in category "People from Hemet, California" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
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 ...
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Hemet Butte received its name for its proximity to the town of Hemet by the U. S. Geological Survey in 1897–98. Hemet Dam and Lake Hemet received their names when they were proposed in 1887 [17] because they were located on the southwest end of the Hemet Valley. The Valley has since been renamed Garner Valley. Historians are not certain how ...
Introducing the 18th class of the California Hall of Fame! Since 2006, @CAMuseum has honored 166 Californians for their achievement in the arts, business and labor, food, literature, music, public ...
The newspaper published yearly special magazine editions to honor the annual Ramona Pageant in Hemet. In 1939, it distributed "one of the biggest weekly newspaper editions in California's history – 76 pages, the largest ever published in Riverside County." [27] Later, the supplement became a 180-page magazine that won national and state ...
A demonstrator holds a sign while gathering on the National Mall during the Women's March in Washington D.C., U.S., on Jan. 21, 2017. Credit - Eric Thayer–Bloomberg—Getty Images
2. The day became Women's History Week in 1978. An education task force in Sonoma County, California kicked off Women's History Week in 1978 on March 8, International Women's Day, according to the ...