Corona Founders Monument

Five men bought pieces of the La Sierra and El Temescal grants and laid out a citrus colony on 4 May 1886, and their engineer, Hiram Clay Kellogg, drew the town's edge as a circle. Grand Boulevard runs near enough three miles around with the groves inside it. They called the place South Riverside; ten years later it renamed itself Corona, Latin for crown, after its own street. In 1913, 1914 and 1916 the circle was closed and raced on. The third race killed a driver and ended them.

What the plaque says

R. B. Taylor, George L. Joy, Samuel Merrill, A. E. Garretson, and Adolph Rimpau, having purchased lands of the La Sierra Rancho of Bernardo Yorba and the El Temescal Grant of Leandro Serrano on May 4 1886, founded the citrus colony and town of Corona.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wigwam Motel — 20 mi
  Nineteen concrete teepees on Foothill Boulevard, the last of Frank Redford's Wigwam Villages and still renting rooms.
• Original McDonald's Site — 23 mi
  The corner where two brothers invented fast food, now an unofficial museum the corporation has never blessed.

More markers nearby

• Butterfield Stage Station — 4.9 mi
• Yorba-Slaughter Adobe — 7.7 mi
• Serrano Tanning Vats — 7.8 mi
• Ruins of Third Serrano Adobe — 7.8 mi