Glossary

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Spanish Words

• estancia - literally a "station". A ranch or farm meant to provide food for a Spanish mission. Usually built near an Indian village. Back
• rancho - A Spanish or Mexican ranch. Many of our land deeds refer to the original Spanish or Mexican land grants. The main reason for the ranchos was to raise cattle for their hides. Back
• adobe - mud made of reddish clay. The mud was mixed with water and pushed into wooden molds. After drying in the sun it could be used to build houses and other buildings. Without protection it melts quickly in the rain. Back
• Asistencia - a helping outpost to a Spanish mission. There was usually a farm and a chapel for Catholic mass. Back
• zanja - a ditch. The zanja was an irrigation canal that brought water from Mill Creek to the Spanish estancia along Mission Road. The work was done by Cahuilla Indians supervised by the Spanish. The zanja irrigated the Spanish vineyards, the fields and orchards of Dr. Barton, and the citrus groves of the Van Leuvens. Parts of the zanja still carry flood waters, but it isn't used for irrigation anymore. You can see part of it as it flows through Sylvan Park near the University of Redlands. Back

Famous People

• Don Antonio Maria Lugo - The Mexican landowner who originally bought San Bernardino Rancho for $800.00 in cattle hides. He had been a soldier, judge and mayor of Los Angeles. He owned lots of land in California. Back
• Father Francisco Dumetz - The Spanish Franciscan priest who is supposed to have named San Bernardino in 1810. He was at the San Gabriel Mission, but was probably too old and sick to make the trip. Somebody named the valley San Bernardino after Saint Bernardine of Siena. Back
• Dr. Benjamin Barton - The first doctor living in the valley. He bought the estancia and all surrounding land from the Mormons. The Barton house is still standing behind the Asistencia. Back
• Horace Frink - The wagon driver, scout and rancher who arrived with the Mormons in 1851. He drove Brigham Young's wagon across the Mormon Trail and eventually settled in Old Town. His adobe house still stands along Mission Road. Back
• John Burden - The Seventh-day Adventist leader who bought Loma Linda from a group of doctors in 1906 for $40,000. He lived much of the rest of his life in Loma Linda. He and his wife established the College of Medical Evangelists. Back
• Amasa Lyman - One of the original Mormon leaders who led settlers to this valley in 1851. Back
• Louisa Lyman - A wife of Amasa Lyman. She traveled the Mormon Trail to Utah, then the trail to San Bernardino in 1851. Back
• Charles Rich - The other Mormon leader responsible for buying and settling San Bernardino. Back
• Anson Van Leuven - Son of Mormon pioneers who settled the valley and stayed. Anson and his wife built the Van Leuven mansion (now called the Mt. View Mansion on Mt. View Ave. in Loma Linda.). He is credited with planting the first citrus trees in the San Bernardino Valley. Back
• Elizabeth Van Leuven - Wife of Anson Van Leuven. After a kitchen fire destroyed their home, she helped make bricks to build a new home, the mansion on Mt. View Ave. Back
• Ellen G.White - Prominent Seventh-day Adventist leader who urged John Burden to buy Loma Linda. Back
• Douglas Welebir - The first mayor of Loma Linda. Back
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - The church which sent settlers to this valley in 1851, then recalled them to Utah in 1857. Back
• Seventh-day Adventists - The church that worships on Saturday, believes in the second coming of Jesus, and practices healthful living. Loma Linda has been primarily a Seventh-day Adventist town since 1906. Back

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