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Casa de Rancho Cucamonga 1860
Casa de Rancho Cucamonga was the first burned
brick house in California. The original ranch house of the ranch
that was called Rancho Cucamonga, the first burned brick house in
California is shown above. A Spanish land grant of over 50,000
acres, it was an important stop for settlers migrating through the
desert and over the mountains from the East. it began the first
cultivation of grapes in California in 1849. Rancho Cucamonga and
neighboring Ontario were major grape/wine and citrus growing areas
prior to the 1970s, when residential development began.
The Mojave Trail was a commercial route
established by flourishing tribes of Mojave indians linking the
Colorado River to the Pacific Ocean. It was over this trail that
the first european and American settlers passed. The Old Spanish
Trail was made by the Gabriellino and Serrano indians, the
original inhabitants of Los Angeles. Later traveled by American
and Spanish explorers like Kit Carson and De Anza, who called the
route from Sonora, Mexico, through Cucamonga to Monterey,
California, "the land bridge." The "El Camino Real," The King's
Highway, was built by the Spanish priests and Gabriellino indians
to link the chain of California missions, which were constructed
one day's travel apart.
The Santa Fe Trail, the famous cattle drive
route, was later followed by the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad route, which is still in use today. The Butterfield
Stagecoach Route was an important stage line in the 19th century.
It was later followed by the tracks of the Southern Pacific
Railroad, which still serves the area.
Rancho Cucamonga is the historical location
where California's most famous roads and trails converge. The
world renown U.S. Highway Route 66 was first established in 1926.
U.S. This famous national highway crosses eight states and is a
cultural icon of the 20th century. The has been depicted in
television, film, music, and literature. It was the link from the
industrial East, through Chicago and St. Louis, to the West. Route
66 provided the way for the greatest mass migration in American
history for the new leisure class of mobile Americans. |
