City of Redlands Official seal of City of Redlands Location of Redlands in California Location of Redlands in California Redlands is positioned in California Redlands - Redlands Redlands / r dl ndz/ is a town/city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
The populace was estimated at 69,999 in 2013. The town/city is positioned approximately 10 miles (16 km) east of downtown San Bernardino.
The region now occupied by Redlands was originally part of the territory of the Morongo and Aguas Calientes tribes of Cahuilla citizens .
The Serrano (Mountain-dwelling Cahuilla) village of Guachama, positioned just to the west of present-day Redlands, was visited by Fr.
Dumetz reached the village on May 20, the feast day of Saint Bernardino of Siena, and thus titled the region the San Bernardino Valley. The Franciscan friars from Mission San Gabriel established the San Bernardino Asistencia in 1819 and embarked on the usual program of training the native tribes to raise crops and encouraging permanent settlements.
The region northwest of current Redlands, astride the Santa Ana River, would turn into known as Lugonia.
In 1851, the region received its first Anglo inhabitants in the form of a several hundred Mormon pioneers, who purchased the entire Rancho San Bernardino, established nearby San Bernardino, and established a prosperous farming improve watered by the many lakes and streams of the San Bernardino Mountains.
Smiley Public Library, a Moorish-style library assembled in 1898, and the Redlands Bowl, assembled in 1930 and home of the earliest continuously no-charge outside concert series in the United States.
Redlands is still regarded as the "Jewel of the Inland Empire." In the mid-late 20th Century, Redlands was home to various light manufacturing firms, and became a bedroom improve for the military personnel and contractor employees of the aerospace trade that supported missions at Norton Air Force Base as well as the Lockheed Propulsion Company plant in Mentone.
The town/city of Redlands was soon established by Frank E.
They titled their town/city "Redlands" after the color of the adobe soil. So large had the region grown by 1888 that it was decided to incorporate.
The journal was first presented in July 1887 by The Citrograph Printing Company, which remains in 2015 as both Redlands' earliest company and the longest-operating printing business in California. The Redlands Street Railway Company was incorporated on March 22, 1888, acquiring on June 5 a charter from the San Bernardino County Supervisors dating to December 1887, conveying the right to construct, operate and maintain for a term of 50 years a line of street stockyards s in Redlands, Terracina and vicinity. The initial operations began in June 1889 with a single-track line operating two-mule-team cars, the first street stockyards business of a several to furnish service to the community.
Electrification and new rails replaced mules in 1899. Most Redlands street stockyards s would pass to the San Bernardino Valley Traction Company in a consolidation on June 3, 1903, and thence to the Pacific Electric in the "Great Merger" of Huntington properties under new ownership by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company on February 8, 1911. Henry E.
Huntington, had attained control of the four-mile (6 km)-long streetcar line of the Redlands Central Railway Company in 1908. The Pacific Electric Railway instead of an interurban connection between Los Angeles and San Bernardino in 1914, providing a convenient, speedy connection to the fast-growing town/city of Los Angeles and its new port at San Pedro, bringing greater prosperity to the town and a new part as a vacation destination for wealthy Angelenos.
At its peak, PE directed five small-town routes in Redlands, with streetcars running to Smiley Heights, and on Orange, Olive, and Citrus Avenues. Pacific Electric interurban service to Redlands was abandoned on July 20, 1936, with 2.07 miles (3.33 km) of track into the town/city lifted, although PE and Southern Pacific (parent business of PE) provided freight service as far as the Sunkist packing plant at Redlands Heights on San Bernardino Avenue into at least the 1970s.
Bus service directed by the Motor Transit Company, a subsidiary of Pacific Electric, began on July 20. This also affected mail bringy in Redlands as "Approximately 80 percent of our mail from all directions arrives on the 5 a.m.
Redlands, California, 1908.
For almost 75 years, the town/city was the center of the biggest navel orange producing region in the world. By the late 1930s, Redlands was a fruit-packing center surrounded by more than 15,000 acres (61 km2) of citrus groves.
In 1945, the first annual Orange Queen Ball at the Redlands City Auditorium was held to raise funds for the union. Women packing oranges at the Sunkist packing plant, Redlands, California, 1943 At the turn of the 20th century, Redlands was the "Palm Springs" of the next century, with roses being planted along many town/city thoroughfares.
In fact, Redlands was the first town/city to have center medians with trees or plant nurseries in between roads.
So beautifully kept was the area, with the dramatic mountain backdrops, that for a several years the Santa Fe Railroad directed excursion trains along the loop that passed through the orange groves of Redlands and Mentone, athwart the Santa Ana River, and back into San Bernardino via East Highlands, Highlands and Patton, and advertised as the "Kite Route" due to its multi-sided alignment.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe, result of the AT&SF-Burlington Northern consolidation , applied to abandon its San Bernardino-connected branch line east of downtown Redlands in 2007, the last shippers at Crafton and Mentone having ceased operations.
The citrus trade declined in the region as more agricultural areas were replaced by subdivisions, and all three citrus packing homes (two in downtown and one on San Bernardino Avenue) had closed by the end of the 1900s.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Redlands had a populace of 68,747.
The ethnic makeup of Redlands was 47,452 (69.0%) White (54.0% Non-Hispanic White), 3,564 (5.2%) African American, 625 (0.9%) Native American, 5,216 (7.6%) Asian, 235 (0.3%) Pacific Islander, 8,266 (12.0%) from other competitions, and 3,389 (4.9%) from two or more competitions.
The populace was spread out with 16,273 citizens (23.7%) under the age of 18, 8,185 citizens (11.9%) aged 18 to 24, 17,381 citizens (25.3%) aged 25 to 44, 17,930 citizens (26.1%) aged 45 to 64, and 8,978 citizens (13.1%) who were 65 years of age or older.
During 2009 2013, Redlands had a median homehold income of $66,835, with 12.5% of the populace living below the federal poverty line. Redlands is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Barbara Boxer and Kamala Harris.
In the United States House of Representatives, Redlands is split between California's 8th congressional district, represented by Republican Paul Cook, and California's 31st congressional district, represented by Democrat Pete Aguilar. In the California State Legislature, Redlands is in the 23rd Senate District, represented by Republican Mike Morrell, and in the 40th Assembly District, represented by Republican Marc Steinorth. Redlands is a general law town/city with no charter of its own.
Redlands Unified School District Redlands East Valley High School Redlands High School Redlands Christian School Redlands, California AT&SF train station, designed 1909 by architect Arthur Brown, Jr.
Coming east from Los Angeles and closing toward Palm Springs, Interstate 10 bisects Redlands.
A tempestuous political battle occurred in the 1950s when three routes for the new freeway were considered, one north of town through the Lugonia precinct - the Lugonia-Sand Canyon route, the center route through the city, and a southern alignment through San Timoteo Canyon, alongsideling the Southern Pacific barns tracks - the San Timoteo-Live Oak Canyon route. The central route was finalized in 1957 and Redlands Mayor Charles Parker cut the ceremonial ribbon to open the new interstate on August 28, 1962. The new State Route 210 or Foothill Freeway ends at Interstate 10 in Redlands, then heads west toward Pasadena and Los Angeles.
The San Bernardino-based Omnitrans bus fitness which handles the bus service for the region serves Redlands. The San Bernardino line of the Greater Los Angeles county-wide transit fitness called Metrolink has a stop in close-by San Bernardino.
Redlands Municipal Airport is a general aviation airport positioned on the Northeastern end of the city.
National Register of Historic Places in Redlands: A.
Smiley Public Library, Beverly Ranch (Fisk-Burgess home), Kimberly Crest, the Mill Creek Zanja, the Redlands Central Railway Company Car Barn, the Redlands Santa Fe Depot District, the Smiley Park Historic District, and the US Post Office Redlands Main. California Historical Landmarks in Redlands: A.K.
The Barton School House, assembled in 1877, is the earliest building in Redlands.
Edwards Mansion, assembled in 1890 by one of the framers of Redlands, Citrus grower James S.
Before she passed the majority of the grounds were sold to the City of Redlands to turn into a botanical park, now known as Prospect Park.
After her death, the home was left to "the citizens of Redlands" and the monies from the sale of the park were used to problematic the Kimberly-Shirk Association that cares for the home and provides tours within. Redlands Historical Museum, positioned inside the A.K.
Smiley Library on the grounds of Smiley Park in downtown Redlands.
The Museum will refurbish the old 1940 City Hall, now used as the Redlands Police Department as their new Museum Center.
The Heritage Center holds various Pictures, Pamphlets, Maps, Yearbooks, Newspapers, manuscripts and books all relating to the rise of Redlands as a navel orange producing mecca to the close knit improve it has turn into today. Redlands Historical Glass Museum holds displays of American Glassware dating from the early 19th century to intact times.
Fox Event Center is positioned in downtown Redlands.
Redlands Bowl Summer Festival is the earliest continuously running music festival in Southern California, and the United States, where no admission is charged.
It is positioned in Smiley Park in the Redlands Bowl amphitheatre. Redlands Footlighters is a volunteer improve theater established in 1945 that produces five shows each season. Redlands Symphony performs through the academic year at the University of Redlands and amid the summer at the Redlands Bowl. Redlands Theatre Festival is a summer volunteer improve theater festival established in 1972 that produces around five plays in repertory that feature a different manufacturing each evening which typically include: a primary Broadway musical, an Off-Broadway musical, a intact drama, a recent Broadway release and a reconstructionpiece.
Redlands Shakespeare Festival occurs each May at the Redlands Bowl outside amphitheater in Smiley Park, and features full-scale repertory performances, a University Lecture Series, an Educational Workshop Series, Director's Insight Series, and other special affairs. The town/city of Redlands owns and operates 14 enhance parks totaling more than 143 acres (0.58 km2): (Redlands Boulevard and New York Street) Ford Park: a 27-acre (110,000 m2) park with two ponds for fishing, lighted tennis courts, dog park, picnic and playground facilities.
(Redlands Boulevard and Ford Street) Smiley Park: a 9.2-acre (37,000 m2) park at the Redlands Civic Center.
Smiley Public Library, a facility listed on the National Register of Historic Places; the Lincoln Memorial Shrine, assembled in 1932, including the biggest compilation of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia west of the Mississippi River; and the Redlands Bowl, an outside amphitheater with seating for approximately 4,000 where summer concerts are performed each Tuesday and Friday evening amid July and August.
Sylvan Park: a 23.3-acre (94,000 m2) park with softball field, horseshoe pits, volleyball area, group and individual picnic areas and playground facilities.
Redlands Sports Park: The 120-acre (0.49 km2) facility includes soccer fields, softball fields, group picnic facilities, playground and recreations elements.
(Wabash Avenue and San Bernardino Avenue) by Redlands Municipal Airport Hangar 24 Craft Brewery: Regional Craft Brewery with Tours and Tasting positioned at the Redlands Municipal Airport.
Redlands Bicycle Classic, a cycling stage race, has been held in Redlands each spring (usually in March) since 1985. Redlands Triathlon/Duathlon, your choice of a 5 - K run/10 mile bike/100 yard swim or a 5 - K run/10 mile bike/5 - K run-walk through Redlands held each February. Run through Redlands, established in 1984, one of the biggest running affairs in the Inland Empire Area including a kinder-dash, 5 - K, 10 - K, and a half-marathon, is held each March. There is a Redlands Area Interfaith Council. The Redlands California Temple is the 116th operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and one of four LDS temples in Southern California.
Congregation Emanu El, formerly positioned in close-by San Bernardino, in 2013 dedicated its new building on Ford Street in Redlands.
John Jorgenson, guitar virtuoso with the Desert Rose Band, the Hellecasters, the John Jorgenson Quintet, and six-year member of Elton John's tour band attended Moore Junior High, and Redlands High School Redlands has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: City of Redlands.
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