California's Citrus HeritageSince the first appearance of oranges at the Franciscan missions in the early 19th century, citrus agriculture has been an inextricable part of California's heritage. From the 1870s to the 1960s, oranges and lemons were dominant features of the Southern California landscape. The Washington navel orange, introduced by homesteader Eliza Tibbets at Riverside in the 1870s, precipitated the rise of a citrus belt stretching from Pasadena (in the San Gabriel

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Many historic markers and memorials have been placed on the mountain

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This patent is held in the Mission Inn Museum collections

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An old Japanese word for spring is sakura-doki which means cherry blossom time

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