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- *Surrounding Cities
Hemet
Information about Hemet, California
Submitted by Ghostpainter on Tue, 06/06/2006 - 10:35am

There are several smaller communities that make up the Hemet Valley area. They are East Hemet, San Jacinto, Valle Vista, Winchester, Homeland, Nuevo, and Lakeview.
HEMET was founded in 1887 and incorporated on January 20, 1910 with 992 people. Hemet has 25.97 square miles and is a mean elevation of 1,599 feet. The highest point in Hemet is 2,052 feet above sea level. The City's latitude is 33:44:50.464N and longitude is 116:58:4.339W.
Have I got a Gold Mine to sell ya?
Submitted by Ghostpainter on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 4:11pm
'Yes Indeed, Mr Kenworthy....I've found a mine that got millions waiting to be dug out, I just don't have the capital or the partners to help finance the venture. Now Mr Kenworthy, ya looks like a man of means and I was wondering if you would like to increase for fortune by buying me mine.' That's the gist of the conversation that took place between an English Gentleman and a scoundrel of a man who's only dirt ever dug, was done within the confines of the territorial Prison in Riverside and the only gold he mined was out of the pockets of Mr. Kenworthy.
The Woman In black who saved my mom.....
Submitted by Ghostpainter on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 1:26pm
When my mom was a bout 12 she came down with a sickness that dam near killed her but in today's medicine world it would have been considered a nuisance cold. But back then Colic was deadly especially during the depression when people didn't have access to money or doctors for that matter.
Diamond Valley Lake
Submitted by Ghostpainter on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 2:44pm
Is designed to be filled from two sources, the Colorado River and state water from Northern California.....The Metropolitan Water District dug a 44-mile tunnel through the San Bernardino mountains in order to lay a pipeline known as the Inland Feeder. and it was completed in 2004, the Inland Feeder carries state water into the reservoir.....The heavy rains of 2004-2005 season helped fill the rest of the Lake, bringing it up current levels nealy a year in advance....Water can leave the reservoir, through the San Diego Canal......Gravity can also carry water to any of six Southern California counties from San Diego to Ventura served by Metropolitan Water District..
The World Famous Ramona Pageant in Hemet was written by Helen Hunt
Submitted by Ghostpainter on Fri, 04/27/2007 - 9:13am
I have an interest in this play because both my parents, and their brothers and sisters were at one time or another part of the Ramona Pageant, in the 1930's when they were small children, and later my dad played an Indian brave when he was about 16.....And, at the very beginning of her acting career, a certain Raquel Welch even played the part of Ramona....Now how about that!
Helen Hunt was born Helen Maria Fiske in Amherst, Massachusetts, a daughter of Nathan Welby Fiske and Deborah Waterman Vinal. ...She had two brothers, who both died right after birth, and a sister named Anne....Her father was a minister, author, and professor of Latin, Greek language, and philosophy at Amherst College.
She attended Ipswich Female Seminary and the Abbott Institute..... She was a classmate of the poet Emily Dickinson, also from Amherst......The two carried on a correspondence for all of their lives, but few of these letters have survived.
In 1852, Helen Fiske was married to Army Captain Edward Hunt, who died in a military accident in 1863......Helen Hunts sons died very early....Her son, Murray Hunt, died in 1854 of a brain disease, then her other son, Rennie Hunt, died of diphtheria in 1865.....With her family gone Helen began to write.
She traveled a great deal.....In the winter of 1873-1874 she was in Colorado Springs, Colorado in search of a cure for tuberculosis......There she met William Jackson, a wealthy banker and railroad CEO....They married in 1875 and had ten years together before cancer claimed Helen in 1885.
Helen was greatly interested in the lives of the Indians who lived through out the Inland Empire.....She and her second Husband William, even went before Congress to fight for Indain Causes....Her most well known book, the Ramona Pageant portrays the ill fated love affair of Mexican Ramona, and her Indian love Alessandro.....Helen wrote the Ramona Pageant in 1884, one year before her death.
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