For the first 25 years that Corona existed (the first 10 as South Riverside) your transportation choices were first horse and buggy, followed by the train. This is a postcard marked 1905 showing the towns first railroad station built on Main Street, the second, which still stands, is built at the same location. Southern California travelers were more serious about railroad maps than road maps. They were not going to be speeding past any off ramps in their horse and buggies. The map here is from 1908. It is interesting to notice how the rail line heading west from Corona veers a bit north to the city of Prado (Rincon until 1907). A town that was displaced when the Prado Dam was built in 1938, it had a train station, school, post office, hotel, shops and its own cemetery where 90 souls remain in peace today. Towns that could not secure rail service did not last, a fate Corona, luckily avoided.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 07:05:23 +0000
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