Old Cucamonga (Images Of America)

To its first inhabitants, the Tongvan Kucamonga tribe, cucamonga meant "land of many waters," referring to the area's numerous streams flowing down from the southeastern end of the San Gabriel Mountains. By the 1800s, it was a Mexican land grant named Cucamonga Rancho. Murder, drought, and foreclosure led to the subdivision of the rancho's 13,000 acres. Immigrants from around the world arrived in Cucamonga's renowned "wine valley." Italian immigrant Secundo Guasti bought a huge swath of land in southern Cucamonga and planted the world's largest vineyard. Many of Guasti's workers lived north of the winery in an area they named Northtown. Still others planted farms, started businesses, and built schools and churches. The farms are gone, most of the wineries are closed, and parts of the old rancho are now known as Upland and Ontario, but the story of Cucamonga lives on through these and other photographs. 9781467133135 1467133132 1 History NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=oVq2CgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Paula Emick
• • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• • Publication Date: Nov 09, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 128 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1467133132
• • ISBN-13: 9781467133135