Update: Why Were The States in the Streets Named After States in Redlands Chosen?
March 25, 2014 Leave a comment
By Michael Reiter, Attorney at Law.
As an update to this post: I saw retired A.K. Smiley Public Library Director Larry Burgess at Eureka Burger last night, and I decided to ask him how the state-named streets in Redlands got their name.
Mr. Burgess was kind enough to tell me that they were named by the developer, and at least one of them was after his home state. He subdivided the land into roughly 25 acre parcels for orange groves, the remnants of which still exist in the area. He said the information was not easy to find; he had run across it in years past.
A search of newspapers gives these references to the streets:
Iowa Street: San Bernardino Daily Sun, August 14, 1912, Pg. 9 (crop mortgage)
Alabama Street and California Street: San Bernardino Courier, April 25, 1894, Page 8 (Notice of Sheriff’s Sale on Execution).
New Jersey Street: San Bernardino Daily Sun, December 11, 1906, Page 6 (Resolution of the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Bernardino responding to a petition of property owners requesting a protection district consisting of the Redlands Storm Water Channel (what appears to be known now as the Mill Creek Zanja).
Kansas Street: San Bernardino Daily Sun, July 9, 1914, Pg. 3 (Boy arrested for sandbagging).
Tennessee Street: San Bernardino Daily Sun, January 31, 1897, Pg. 3 (Petition for Mission School District to the Board of Supervisors)
Nevada Street: San Bernardino Daily Sun, May 2, 1903, Pg. 2 (Petition to have Nevada accepted as a public road to the Board of Supervisors)
New York Street: Daily Sun, January 31, 1897, Pg. 1 (House building permit).
Texas Street: Daily Courier, September 26, 1888, Pg. 3 (Redlands Cannery to be constructed)
He agreed that some were added later to keep up the theme.
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About Michael Reiter, Attorney at Law
Michael Reiter, Municipal Attorney. Partner with Cole Huber, LLP in Ontario, Roseville California 