Rancho San Bernardino Cemetery
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Rancho San Bernardino Cemetery

Colton, San Bernardino County, California, USA

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    Coordinates: 34.08499, -117.31399
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Rancho San Bernardino Cemetery was established about 1820 at Politana, an outpost of Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in Alta California and part of the Rancho San Bernardino de Sena Estancia (estate). The area was inhabited by the Guachama tribe of Native Americans who lived on the bluff now called Bunker Hill in the San Bernardino Valley. The Guachama neophytes (Christian converts) and those of other local tribes were buried in this cemetery until the latter part of the 19th century. Settlers moving into the valley subsequently seized the land, leveled the graves and planted an orange grove. No trace of the cemetery remains today.

Location: West side of Mount Vernon Avenue north of its intersection with Citrus Street/Grant Avenue/La Cadena Drive and opposite the campus of San Bernardino Valley College in Colton, California.

Reference: "History of the San Bernardino Valley, From the Padres to the Pioneers, 1810-1851", Reverend Father Juan Caballeria, 1902, (Times-Index Press, San Bernardino, California, 1992), pages 37-41.
Rancho San Bernardino Cemetery was established about 1820 at Politana, an outpost of Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in Alta California and part of the Rancho San Bernardino de Sena Estancia (estate). The area was inhabited by the Guachama tribe of Native Americans who lived on the bluff now called Bunker Hill in the San Bernardino Valley. The Guachama neophytes (Christian converts) and those of other local tribes were buried in this cemetery until the latter part of the 19th century. Settlers moving into the valley subsequently seized the land, leveled the graves and planted an orange grove. No trace of the cemetery remains today.

Location: West side of Mount Vernon Avenue north of its intersection with Citrus Street/Grant Avenue/La Cadena Drive and opposite the campus of San Bernardino Valley College in Colton, California.

Reference: "History of the San Bernardino Valley, From the Padres to the Pioneers, 1810-1851", Reverend Father Juan Caballeria, 1902, (Times-Index Press, San Bernardino, California, 1992), pages 37-41.

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