San Jacinto Valley
The average elevation is 1,500 feet (460 m), with the highest points in the foothills south of Hemet and the western slopes of the San Jacinto Mountains.
The first native people settled in the San Jacinto Valley thousands of years ago.
In 1774, and again in 1775, Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza led two expeditions up from Mexico, crossing the Colorado River at Yuma and continuing across the Borrego Desert and up Coyote Canyon.
[4] In the early 19th century, the area became a cattle ranch for the Spanish Mission San Luis Rey, which is located in the modern-day city of Oceanside.
The two cities in the valley have experienced significant growth since the 1980s, and make up one of the fastest-growing areas in the state of California and Riverside County.
The city is also planned to be the location of the eastern terminus of Mid County Parkway, a new transportation corridor in that will link to I-215 in Perris.
Homeland is a census-designated place located approximately 8 miles (13 km) west of Hemet, California.
Fairview Avenue, which runs from Bautista Canyon to the city of San Jacinto, is part of the old historic Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, an old trail that went from Nogales, Arizona on the U.S. and Mexican Border, to a Presidio in San Francisco.
The college district was created in 1962 by a vote of the citizens of Banning, Beaumont, Hemet, and San Jacinto.
In 1975, the residents of Temecula, Lake Elsinore, Perris and adjacent areas voted to join the Mt.
The San Jacinto Campus has been master-planned and essentially will be rebuilt over the next 15 to 20 years to accommodate 12,000 to 15,000 students.
Local Indians relics, artifacts from pioneer families, and material on the community, its businesses and institutions are featured.
Special exhibits highlight the record-breaking 1937 Soviet transpolar flight which landed in San Jacinto, and the development of downtown.
It features exhibits of Ice Age mammals, including 'Max', the largest mastodon found in the western United States, and as 'Xena', a Columbian Mammoth.
The Patterson family, John, wife Maria, daughters Tilla, Ida, and Jessie, and son Clarence, arrived in what was known as Rockhouse in 1883.
As they passed through Los Angeles, Maria gathered pepper tree seeds which she planted at their new home.
The residence was built by Winchester pioneer John Patterson, over the ruins of an adobe home that was the headquarters of a Mexican rancho before 1850.
Some museum visitors have claimed to experience poltergeist activities including phantom knocking, doors opening, and objects moving.
Some claim it is the spirit of Lloyd Patterson, who died in the house of tuberculosis as a young man in the early 1900s.
[21] In San Jacinto, one can find several historic homes on Main Street including the Vosburg Hotel.
It descends into the city of Lake Elsinore and later reaches Perris, eventually overlapping with I-215 for roughly two miles.
Continuing east, it passes through Romoland and Homeland, entering the San Jacinto Valley as Florida Avenue.
It heads north to Julian and Warner Springs, eventually reaching Riverside County and the city of Temecula.
In Hemet, SR 79 overlaps State Route 74 (Florida Avenue), following it eastward for a few miles before heading north again through San Jacinto.
The airport is also home to a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Riverside Unit) joint Air Attack/Helitack base.
The bus system provides a connection to other cities and communities in the Inland Empire, including Riverside, Temecula, Menifee, Banning, and Corona, as well as a commuter link to Escondido in San Diego County.
