Rialto

A small band of Serrano Indians were the first inhabitants of the area near the Cajon Basin River, in an area bounded by route 66 on the south and Baseline on the North.....Artifacts discovered by archaeologist suggest that the city of Rialto was settled prior to the year 1500.....Such artifacts, now found at the Rialto Historical Society, indicate that the Serrano Indians lived in the Rialto area between 1500 and 1800....They most likely broke off from the Serrano's that lived on the Northern Deserts and in the deep creek area for hundreds of years.....No trace was left behind to suggest what happened to this small group of people, but it is believed that because the tribe was so small that they were either absorbed into the Cahuilla's, just before Spanish Mercenaries discovered the valley, or perhaps killed off by the Mormons after they settled in the San Bernardino area....No one is sure....After all the tribe only numbered around 40 when they were first discovered.....So it would not be to hard for this band to disappear into the night and never be seen again.

In addition to freeway projects, Measure I provides funds for major street improvements throughout the San Bernardino Valley. These funds are used for major rehabilitation, construction or reconstruction of main thoroughfares, also called arterial streets. A Measure I Arterial Program Five Year Plan is adopted each year to allocate funds for these streets.

Prior to July 2006, the last big fire we had in the Inland Empire was the Grand Prix fire in October of 2003.

Although I have lived in the foothills (Monrovia, Azusa, Upland, and Rancho Cucamonga) all my life - and never any further from the mountains than 1/4-mile, never had a brush fire affected my family the way the Grand-Prix fire did.

Over the years there have been several floods in the IE. The most famous is the 1969 flood. In 1969, Day creek flooded down Haven ave running over 12 feet deep for the entire length of the highway. And Archibald, up above Hillside was in full flood. The Damn at the head of the canyon broke and all of the mud and debris either flowed down through the Horse Shoe Canyon and down Archibald or joined the raging Cucamonga Creek.