The tin mine, located east of Temescal, was developed after the 1866 ruling and produced tin by 1869. He was forced by his losses in the drought of 1863-64 to sell off his interest in the Temescal Rancho in 1864, for $100,000. In 1856, Abel Stearns was convinced that the rancho's property contained tin ores and bought an interest in Rancho Temescal from Serrano's widow for 200 cattle. From October 29, 1874, Temescal again had its own post office. The bees were first brought into the valley in the early seventies and became an important source of income in the valley. During the 1870s, orchards and bee hives began to replace cattle and sheep ranching. Its school house was built under a huge sycamore tree and served until 1889, when a new building took its place in the early 1900s. In 1866, the Temescal School District was organized, the fifth in San Bernardino County. It was a Post Office from February 12 until Novemwhen the American Civil War shut down the Butterfield stage operations. By 1860, Greenwade's Place in Temescal Canyon, 3 miles north of the stage station, was a polling place for southwestern San Bernardino County. The Temescal Overland station was "at the foot of the Temescal hills, a splendid place to camp, wood and water plenty, and protected from the winds." Around this location the settlement of Temescal grew over the next few decades. In 1857, the Temescal Station of the Butterfield Overland Mail stage line was established five miles north of the Temescal Hot Springs, ten miles north of Rancho La Laguna station and twenty miles south of the Chino Rancho station. Temescal Temescal Station and Settlement ![]() Meanwhile squatters settled on the land in anticipation of this result in 1855. The Serrano family held the land until they lost the court case validating their title to the land in 1866. The grant extended along the Temescal Valley south of present day Corona and encompassed El Cerrito and Lee Lake. ![]() The Serrano Boulder (California Historical Landmark (#185), marks the site of the first house erected by Leandro Serrano about May 1824. He took possession in about 1818 or 1819 under a grant given by Governor José María de Echeandía to Leandro Serrano. Serrano received the written permission of the priest of the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, or of the military commander of San Diego, to occupy the five square league Rancho Temescal on land belonging to Mission of San Luis Rey. Temescal Valley takes its name from the Rancho Temescal established by Leandro Serrano. 1.2.3 South Riverside, Corona and the decline of Temescal.
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