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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D2J_garces-smith-monument_San-Bernardino-CA.html
Garces-Smith Monument. The Mojave Indian Trail. Traveled by Fr. Francisco Garcés, March, 1776, and Jedediah S. Smith, November, 1826.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2C4O_san-bernardino-santa-fe-depot_San-Bernardino-CA.html
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe railway built San Bernardino's first permanent train depot in 1886 to meet the growing number of rail passengers and to house its Los Angeles division administrative and freight offices. This two-and-a-half-story wooden …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29NU_worlds-first-mcdonalds_San-Bernardino-CA.html
Dick and Mac McDonald opened the world's first McDonald's Self-Service, Drive-In Restaurant on this site in San Bernardino, California, December 1948.
They previously operated a successful Drive-In Barbeque Restaurant with Carhop Service on this…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MJ6_historic-cannon_San-Bernardino-CA.html
1818 Mexican Cannon captured in Los Angeles by Americans in 1845 and placed in Fort Benson in 1856 by an independent party in a dispute with Mormons over land title.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I35_arrowhead-plaza_San-Bernardino-CA.html
Rancho Agua Caliente by 1820 was established by Mission San Gabriel authorities in this area to supply water and grass for mission cattle.
Jose Del Carmen Lugo, Jose Maria Lugo and Vicente Lugo acquired the mission lands in 1823 and built a sma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HXJ_to-jedediah-smith_San-Bernardino-CA.html
Born at Brambridge in Northern N.Y. January 6, 1799 he discovered south pass of the Rocky Mts. the great gateway through which passed nearly all subsequent migration west and northwest from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
He was the first American…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HXI_charles-c-rich-amasa-m-lyman_San-Bernardino-CA.html
In memory of
Charles C Rich
Amasa M Lyman
Builders of the Council House 1852
First school, church, and later Court House of this county.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HXH_the-council-house_San-Bernardino-CA.html
On this site the first public building erected in this county was the Council House. Built by Amasa Lyman and Charles C. Rich in 1853. Built of adobe, it was the central office of the Mormon interests both religious and secular. Later it was our f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HXG_settlement-of-san-bernardino_San-Bernardino-CA.html
(top-center plaque)
In March 1851 Charles C. Rich and Amasa M. Lyman, apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, left Utah with 437 people "to establish a stronghold for the gathering of saints in California." Jefferson Hunt, Da…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DUN_blue-cut_San-Bernardino-CA.html
Cajon Pass, separating the San Bernardino and San Gabriel ranges, has long been an important natural gateway. It is traversed by Indian trails, emigrant routes, railroads, and a superhighway. Early in the nineteenth century it became the southern …