Editing Perris, California (section)

==History==
Native Americans inhabited the hills. Gold deposits were found when Spanish and Mexican miners entered the area.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cityofperris.org/our-city/about-perris/history | title=History |publisher=City of Perris, CA }}</ref>

The coming of the [[California Southern Railroad]] led to the founding of the city around the new depot, on the rail connection between the present-day cities of [[Barstow, California|Barstow]] and [[San Diego]]. The Perris Depot is included in the [[Historic American Buildings Survey|Library of Congress’ Historic American Buildings Survey]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Miller Coleman |first=Nicole |date=March 10, 2018 |title=Visit these lesser-known cultural and historical gems in Perris |work=[[San Diego Union Tribune]] |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/sd-tm-0310-gems-in-perris-20180227-story.html}}</ref> Due to a land title dispute at [[Pinacate, California|Pinacate]], most of its citizens moved two miles north on the railroad and established Perris in 1885. The city is named in honor of [[Fred T. Perris]], chief engineer of the [[California Southern Railroad]]. The city of Perris was incorporated in 1911. It originally was within [[San Diego County]] but, in 1892, it was transferred to the newly established [[Riverside County]].<ref name="npspdf">{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=92001384}}|title=Southern Hotel|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|access-date=May 5, 2012}}</ref>{{Original research inline|date=June 2022|certain=The reference is for an application to recognize the city as a historical landmark; says nothing on whether it was accepted and whether its contents verified or verifiable}}<ref>{{cite report |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NEBHAQAAIAAJ&dq=perris+california+%22san+diego+county%22+1892&pg=PA224 |first=Horatio N. |last=Rust |date=September 10, 1891 |chapter=Report of Mission Agency |pages=221–225 |title=The Executive Documents of the House of Representatives for the first session of the fifty second congress |access-date=October 10, 2022}}</ref>

In 2005, the [[National Archives and Records Administration]] opened the National Archives at Riverside, which is its regional branch for federal documents relating to the Pacific Region (Arizona, southern California, and Clark County, Nevada) in Perris.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Archives Opens New Pacific Region Records Center Facility |date=August 15, 2016 |url=https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2005/nr05-50.html |publisher=National Archives |access-date=August 7, 2022}}</ref>