1771 San Gabriel Mission founded
1774 Cahuillas have 1st European encounter/ California Rancho Period begins
1775 Cahuillas meet Juan Bautista
1784-1846 the “Golden years” of the Rancho Period (62 years)
1790s Spanish began raiding Serrano villages for Converts
1819 San Bernardino Rancho established as an outpost for San Gabriel Mission (Redlands area)
1820s Yucaipa became an outpost of the San Gabriel Mission raising cattle for their hides
1821 Mexico wins its Independence from Spain
1823 San Gorgonio Rancho established as an outpost for cattle grazing (Cherry Valley)
1833 Mexican Secularization Act of 1833 strips missions of their lands, sold to ranchers
1833 Cholera and Malaria epidemics kill many Serranos
1834 San Gorgonio Rancho Outpost abandoned
1834 Mexican Government forces Serranos to locate to the missions
1839 Mexican colonists are granted permission to start settlements.
1839 Juan Bandini discovered a “yellow metal” near Crystal Springs and requested permission to mine the gold.
1840 Cahuillas encounter Angelos: Weaver & Saxton
1842 Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado grants part of Yucaipa in the San Bernardino Rancho to Antonio Maria Lugo family. (total of 35,000)
1840Serranos suffer smallpox outbreak killing many
1844 Paulino Weaver land grant approved for 3,000 acres in Cherry Valley
1846-1848 Mexican American war
1848 Americans defeat Mexican Government
1851 Lugo family sell land to Amasa Lyman and Charles Rich of the Mormon Church
1857 Land ownership transfers to James Waters who expands use of land ( Yucaipa)
1860 Serranos suffer smallpox outbreak killing many
1860s Mark Whitesides settled into the area and operated a hog business, Hog Hollow along today’s Lime Kiln Road.
1863 John Dunlap and his partner William Riley Standifer purchased Waters Adobe ( Yucaipa Adobe) and surrounding 3,840 acres to raise barley, cattle, sheep, and a dairy for over 40 years.
1875 Earthquake changed flow of Yucaipa Creek allowing the pioneers to build houses where the water table dropped on the Lower Bench of the community.
1875 John Dunlap dies, his wife leases property to their 3 sons and Franklin Pierce Dunlap ran the dairy farm.
1882 Franklin Pierce Dunlap built a house in the eastern area , moving the center of town to his new house in upper Yucaipa. Today’s Casa Blanca. First post office.
1880s-1890sThomas Johnathan Wilson a teacher, rancher, and chief -tax assessor in Upper Yucaipa on the North Bench. Road to his home called Carter Street. Wilson Creek bears his name still today. He raised cattle, grain, and fruit trees.
1890s first time organized government was discussed in Yucaipa.
