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

• Sherman Institute & the Sherman Indian Museum — 7.8 mi
  The federal Indian boarding school Riverside lobbied to get — still a school today, its 1902 building now a museum.
• California Citrus State Historic Park — 8.0 mi
  A state park that is still a working orange grove — the last big piece of Riverside's citrus landscape left standing.
• Planes of Fame Air Museum — 8.8 mi
  On the field where the country smelted its surplus warplanes — and about thirty of the aircraft here still fly.
• Riverside Chinatown Site — 12 mi
  Riverside's second Chinatown — an empty lot on purpose, with eighty percent of it still underground.

More markers nearby

• Butterfield Stage Station — 4.9 mi
• Black Star Canyon Indian Village Site — 7.6 mi
• Yorba-Slaughter Adobe — 7.7 mi
• Serrano Tanning Vats — 7.8 mi