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RIVERSIDE , a See also:city of See also:southern See also:California, U.S.A., and the See also:county-seat of Riverside county, situated on the See also:Santa See also:Ana See also:river, in the See also:San Bernardino valley. Pop. (189o) 4683; (1900) 7973 (1525 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 15,212. It is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific and the San Pedro, Los Angeles & See also:Salt See also:Lake See also:railways. The city occupies a slope (about Boo-l000 ft. above See also:sea-level), rising toward the See also:east is beautifully built and is a See also:winter and See also:health resort. In the See also:Albert S. See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White See also:Park there is a notable collection of cacti; and See also:Huntington Park is high and rocky, is well planted with trees and has a finely shaded. automobile drive. See also:Magnolia See also:Avenue, bordered with See also:pepper-trees, is 10 m. See also:long and 130 ft. wide; and See also:Victoria Avenue is similarly parked and lined with semi-tropical trees. Riverside is the seat of an important (non-See also:reservation) boarding-school for See also:Indians, See also:Sherman See also:Institute (1903), which in 1908 had 699 students. Riverside is devoted to the cultivation of oranges, lemons and other subtropical fruits, and has a large See also:trade in these products. It is in the centre of the finest See also:orange See also:district of the See also:state; near Huntington Park is the state citrus experiment station (1906), with an experimental See also:orchard of 20 acres. The cultivation of See also:navel oranges was first introduced from See also:Brazil into the See also:United States at Riverside in 1873; the two See also:original trees, protected by an See also:iron railing, were still See also:standing in 1909. The domestic See also:water See also:supply is obtained from artesian See also:wells. In 187o the site of the See also:present city, then called Jurupa Rancho, the name of the old See also:Spanish See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant, was See also:purchased by the Southern California See also:Colony Association. The See also:settlement was chartered in 1883 as a city, with limits including about 56 sq. m. Riverside county was not organized until ten years later. From 1895 there were no saloons in the city.
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