Temescal Valley, California

Riverside County

Temescal Valley is a census -designated place in Riverside County in the U.S. state of California. The municipality has 22,535 inhabitants ( 2010).

Geography

Temescal Valley is located in western Riverside County in California off Interstate 15 between Corona and Lake Elsinore. The site is drained by the Temescal Wash.

With 22,535 inhabitants (as of 2010 census ) and an area of ​​approximately 50.1 km ², almost entirely composed of land, the population density is 450.8 inhabitants per square kilometer. The center is located at an altitude of 349 meters.

History

Rancho Temescal

The present town Temescal Valley is named after the former Rancho Temescal, which was founded by Leandro Serrano. Serrano received permission Rancho, which stood on the territory of the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, to inhabit. In 1818 or 1819 he took the property through a transfer of title of the governor of Alta California, José María de Echeandía in possession. The Serrano Boulder marks the place where Leandro Serrano built the first house in 1824. Today, it is registered as California Historical Landmark. Serranos Country covered in Temescal Valley and lay south of today's city Corona; it also included El Cerrito and the Lee Lake. The Serrano family lost in 1866 in a court of their land, which had already been occupied by squatters in 1855.

Station on the Butterfield Overland Route

In 1857 the Temescal Station was established as a stopping point on the route of the Butterfield Overland Mail. She was eight kilometers north of Temescal Hot Springs, sixteen kilometers north of the station Rancho La Laguna and 32 kilometers south of the station Rancho Santa Ana del Chino. The Temescal station was located at the foot of Temescal Hills and has been described as magnificent, sheltered storage space with plenty of wood and water resources. To this place around grew over the next few decades, the settlement Temescal. By 1860 Green was with Wade 's Place in Temescal Canyon, five kilometers north of the station, a polling station of the southwestern San Bernardino counties, the region belonged to the founding of Riverside County in 1893. When the operation on the Butterfield Overland Mail Route in 1861 during the American Civil War came to a standstill, the Temescal station was used as a post office from 12 February to 12 November.

1866 Temescal School District was formed, the fifth school district in San Bernardino County. The school building was until 1889 operated until it was replaced by a new building in the early 20th century. In the 1870s, orchards and beehives began to supplant the previously dominant beef and sheep farms. At the beginning of the decade hives were created in the community for the first time. They were later to be an important source of income for the local economy. On October 29, 1874 Temescal received for the second time in its history, a post office.

Tin Mine

Already in 1856 the dealer Abel Stearns was convinced that the area of the former Rancho has Zinnerzvorkommen why he was shareholder of the Rancho. After the dry season 1862-1864 he sold for $ 100,000 back its shares, although the tin mine east of Temescal itself only in 1866, was created when the family Serrano Rancho lost by a court judgment. Until 1869 tin was mined in Temescal. The mines were not subsequently removed, because the ownership of the land to a judgment of the Supreme Court in 1888, remained unclear.

Following the decision studied experts from England, the tin mine. Due to their positive reports, the "California Mining and Smelting Company" was founded on July 24, 1890 in London. Even in the newly formed company " San Jacinto Estate, Limited" invested prominent investors from London. The tin mine was transferred to the Rancho San Jacinto Sobrante and operated since its opening two years. The influx of miners Temescal grew. By July 1892 136 tons of tin were produced in Temescal. The first shipment arrived in New York on March 30, 1892, but it remained the last, as the mine was closed in the same year. Bring money end equipment and machines were sold, and the mine has since not operated again.

Descent

In May 1886, the " South Riverside Land and Water Company" was founded; their most prominent member was the former governor of Iowa, Samuel Merrill. The company saw itself as an organization of citrus fruit growers and bought Bernardo Yorba 's Rancho La Sierra from, as it extended the Rancho Temescal and the settlement of South Riverside. Furthermore, the water rights of the Temescal Wash, its tributaries and the award of Lee Lakes to the company were. Use of dams and pipelines was directed water to the new settlements. In 1889, another company was founded for water supply with the " Temescal Water Company ". It acquired the entire water- covered land in the Temescal Valley and had to drill artesian wells. On the first ground, the workers encountered at 90 meters depth to the surface, it passed through pumping stations. By the time all the water of the Temescal washs and Coldwater Creek was diverted into pipelines, so that the springs and swamps were drained and the valley in the sequence was dry and desolate. The farms and orchards in the central valley were abandoned, and the old mud-brick houses crumbled route on the stage and ultimately disappeared altogether. On November 30, 1901, the post office of Temescal has been closed since the place belongs to the post office of the city of Corona.

Policy

Temescal Valley is part of the 28th district in the Senate of California, which is currently represented by Democrat Ted Lieu W.. In the California State Assembly, the place is assigned to the 67th District and is thus represented by the Republican Melissa Melendez. At the federal level Temescal Valley California is one of 42 congressional district, a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R 10 and is represented by Republican Ken Calvert.

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