Editing San Jacinto, California (section)

==History==
[[File:José_Antonio_Estudillo.jpg|thumb|left|San Jacinto grew out of [[Rancho San Jacinto Viejo]], granted in 1842 to [[Californio]] politician Don [[José Antonio Estudillo]], considered to be the founder of San Jacinto and a member of the prominent [[Estudillo family of California]].]]
The [[Luiseño people|Luiseño]] were the original inhabitants of what later would be called the San Jacinto Valley, having many villages with residents.<ref>''San Jacinto''. 2008. Arcadia Pub. Charleston, SC. J.Warneke, M. Holtzclaw, San Jacinto Valley Museum Association. www.arcadiapublishing.com</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y3STDYbW7eQC&q=san+jacinto+incorporation+1888|title=San Jacinto|last1=Warneke|first1=Jack|last2=Holtzclaw|first2=Kenneth M.|date=2008|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9780738558424|pages=7–8|language=en}}</ref>

The ''Anza Trail'', one of the first European overland routes to California, named after [[Juan Bautista de Anza]],<sup>4</sup> crossed the valley in the 1770s. Mission padres named the valley, San Jacinto, which is Spanish for Saint Hyacinth, and around 1820 they established an outpost there.<ref>{{Cite journal|jstor = 41168814|title = Development of Travel Between Southern Arizona and Los Angeles as It Related to the San Bernardino Valley|journal = Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California|volume = 13|issue = 2|pages = 228–257|last1 = Beattie|first1 = George William|doi = 10.2307/41168814|year = 1925}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

In 1883, the ''San Jacinto Land Association'' laid out the modern city of San Jacinto at ''Five Points''. The railroad arrived in 1888 and the city government was incorporated that same year.<ref name=":0" />

The local economy was built on agriculture for many years and the city also received a boost from the many tourists who visited the nearby hot springs. The city, and its residents, helped to start [[the Ramona Pageant]] ( California's official State Outdoor Play), in 1923, and have supported the historic production ever since.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ci.san-jacinto.ca.us/news/museum.html |title=San Jacinto Museum |access-date=October 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024124052/http://www.ci.san-jacinto.ca.us/news/museum.html |archive-date=October 24, 2008 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

On July 15, 1937, San Jacinto was the end point for the longest uninterrupted airplane flight to that date when [[Mikhail Gromov (aviator)|Mikhail Gromov]]'s crew of three made the historic {{convert|6262|mi|km|adj=on}} polar flight from Moscow, USSR, in a [[Tupolev ANT-25]]. This flight followed another similar historic flight over the pole when [[Valery Chkalov]]'s crew of three ended up in [[Vancouver, Washington|Vancouver]]'s Pearson Airfield earlier that same year. With these two flights, the USSR earned two major milestones in the [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale]] (FAI) flight records. In the early 1950s the fraternal group [[E Clampus Vitus]] and the Riverside County Department of Transportation commemorated the Gromov flight by erecting a stone marker on Cottonwood Avenue, just west of Sanderson Avenue in west-central San Jacinto. The landing site is also marked by [[List of California Historical Landmarks|California State Historical Landmark]] Number 989.<ref>California Office of Historic Preservation Historic Landmarks Listing (Riverside County) https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21452</ref>