Editing Corona, California (section)

=== Colonial period ===
[[File:Portrait_of_Don_Bernardo_Yorba_by_an_unknown_artist.jpg|left|thumb|upright|Don [[Bernardo Yorba]], a wealthy [[Californio]] ranchero, was granted [[Rancho La Sierra (Yorba)|Rancho La Sierra]], which included all of modern-day Corona.]]The founding of [[Mission San Juan Capistrano]] in 1776 and [[Mission San Luis Rey de Francia|Mission San Luis Rey]] in 1798 saw the introduction of Spanish soldiers and missionaries in the area. This resulted in villagers being brought to the mission to be baptized and as labor.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wkc0AQAAMAAJ |title=Santa Ana River Main Stem and Santiago Creek: Environmental Impact Statement |date=1978 |language=en}}</ref>

Spanish influence increased in the area with the establishment of the [[San Antonio de Pala Asistencia]] in 1816. Two years following the construction of this mission outpost, the [[Temescal Valley (California)|Temescal Valley]]'s first European resident, Leandro Serrano, was given permission by the Spanish to use the area for [[cattle grazing]]. His first order was to kill the local [[California bear|bear]] and [[mountain lion]] population for the imported herds.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Lech |first=Steve |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/945980945 |title=Pioneers of Riverside County : the Spanish, Mexican and early American periods |date=2012 |isbn=978-1-61423-783-9 |location=Charleston, SC |format=eBook |oclc=945980945}}</ref>

After the [[Mexican secularization act of 1833|secularization of the Spanish missions]] by the [[First Mexican Republic]] in 1833, the land under influence by the missions in [[Alta California]] was gradually granted to large landowners as ranches. In 1848, Californio governor [[Pio Pico]] issued this land to [[Bernardo Yorba]], which included present-day city of Corona.<ref>Ogden Hoffman, 1862, ''Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California'', Numa Hubert, San Francisco</ref><ref name=":1" />