By 1912 Corona have 5,000 acres of lemon, orange, grapefruit, limes and tangerines groves.

Corona had the title of Lemon Capital of the World, but lost it to Ventura County, California.

H.C. Kellogg laid the city out in a one-mile diameter circle in 1887, with Grand Boulevard three miles around it.

To the North of the circle was a railroad station and citrus packing houses.

[2][3][4][5] On May 4, 1886, for $110,000 they started the South Riverside Land and Water Company with the purchase of:[6] Counting for inflation $110,000 in 1886 would be almost $3 million in 2018 dollars.

Attended Wilson College, California, coed opened by Benjamin Davis Wilson and the Methodist Church, start in 1874 at Drum Barracks, closed in 1877 and reopened in 1880, later became as University of Southern California.