Editing Upland, California (section)

===Later history===
Upland's first hospital, the [[Old San Antonio Hospital|San Antonio Hospital]], opened on the corner of Arrow Highway and San Antonio Avenue in 1907, one year after Upland was incorporated as a city. The hospital had 18 beds with a medical staff of five physicians. It was built with funds received from community stock sales. The expanded San Antonio Community Hospital was dedicated on Wednesday, July 30, 1924. This new hospital, "commodiously and scientifically constructed," according to a news article in the Upland News, had 35 rooms with a capacity for 50 patients. The total cost for this new facility, located on East San Bernardino Road, was $173,107.10.<ref>[http://www.sach.org/home/Giving_and_Support/History/Frances_Mary_Paul/ The Story of Frances Mary Paul] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130402175232/http://www.sach.org/home/Giving_and_Support/History/Frances_Mary_Paul/ |date=April 2, 2013 }}, San Antonio Community Hospital, Retrieved on April 4, 2013</ref>

In 1911, the citizens of Upland created a [[volunteer fire department]] with F.H. Manker named as the Fire Chief. The first recorded piece of apparatus was a hose cart that was pulled by the first available personnel. In 1913, the first serious fire to occur in the new community destroyed all the businesses on the east side of Second Avenue south of Ninth Street. This fire generated interest in further protecting the community, and in 1915 the fire station on D Street was built. The first motorized fire engine was purchased at this time. In 2017, the Upland Fire Department dissolved and became a part of the San Bernardino County fire district.<ref>[http://www.uplandpl.lib.ca.us/asp/Site/Fire/DeptOverview/History/index.asp Upland Fire Department History], City of Upland, Retrieved on March 31, 2013</ref>

Upland was one of the cities located on the [[National Old Trails Road]], established in 1912 as the first national coast-to-coast highway. In Upland, the national highway ran along [[Foothill Boulevard (Southern California)|Foothill Boulevard]], which had been built on the route established by the early Spanish explorers.<ref>{{cite book |title=The National Old Trails Road To Southern California |author= Automobile Club Of Southern California |year=1916 |page=2 |url=https://archive.org/download/nationaloldtrail00autorich/nationaloldtrail00autorich.pdf}}</ref> In 1926, a hundred years after Jedediah Smith's expedition, the western part of the National Old Trails Road became part of the famed [[U.S. Route 66|Route 66]].<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/route66/origins_of%20Route66.html The Origins of Route 66], National Park Service, Retrieved on March 29, 2013.</ref>

A trolley line in the broad, tree-lined median of Euclid Avenue formerly connected Upland to the Southern Pacific Railroad line in [[Ontario, California|Ontario]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Southern California |author=Southern California Panama Expositions Commission |year=1914 |page=181 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c2JAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA181}}</ref> The trolley was pulled from Ontario to Upland by a mule, which then climbed aboard an attached trailer for the ride back down.<ref>{{cite journal |date=October 1922 |title=From Mule to Motor Bus on Street Car Tracks |journal=Popular Science |volume=101 |issue=4 |page=61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bioDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA61}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Trolley Car Treasury: a century of American streetcars horsecars, cable cars, interurbans, and trolleys |url=https://archive.org/details/trolleycartreasu00rows |url-access=registration |last=Rowsome |first=Frank |year=1956|publisher=McGraw-Hill |page=[https://archive.org/details/trolleycartreasu00rows/page/27 27]}}</ref>
It was later converted to electricity and closed in 1928.<ref name="sbsun.com">{{cite news |title= History timeline of the Inland Empire, California |url= http://www.sbsun.com/ci_7323066 |newspaper= San Bernardino Sun |date= October 30, 2007 |access-date= March 31, 2013 |archive-date= September 17, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110917094900/http://www.sbsun.com/ci_7323066 |url-status= dead }}</ref>

The citrus industry in Upland and neighboring Ontario continued to thrive, and by the 1930s, citrus had become the dominant agricultural crop for California. In 1936, the revenue from the citrus industry totaled $97,000,000. This was second in profit only to the California petroleum industry, which totaled $159,500,000. At the height of citrus production, the industry produced sixty percent of the nation's citrus supply and twenty percent of the world's supply. This success continued for citrus growers until the mid-1940s, when the citrus industry as a whole began its decline. After World War II, land values began to skyrocket, and growers began to sell their land to developers.<ref>{{cite book |title=Historic Context for The City of Ontario's Citrus Industry |year=2007 |pages=42–43 |url=http://www.ci.ontario.ca.us/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=2057 |publisher=City of Ontario |access-date=March 31, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923203304/http://www.ci.ontario.ca.us/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=2057 |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

In 1954, the [[San Bernardino Freeway]], later part of [[Interstate 10 in California|Interstate 10]], was completed, connecting Los Angeles to San Bernardino.<ref name="sbsun.com" /> The freeway, one of the first in the nation, eased the commute to Los Angeles and accelerated the transition of Upland from a rural citrus area to a residential and commercial community.<ref>{{cite news |title= Taking a Closer Look at Upland's Rich History |url= http://www.uplandheritage.org/page23.htm |newspaper= Inland Empire Daily Bulletin |date= April 15, 1998 |access-date= April 10, 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>