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The marker for the Temescal Butterfield Stage Station has since been removed, replaced during construction of a housing development or when Temescal Canyon Road was widened. The site now appears to be near where Breezy Meadow Lane intersects Temescal Canyon Road.[2][3]
The petroglyphs, were carved by the Luiseño Indians, their meaning is said to be: 'A chief died here. These are his plumes, his portrait, his sign, and the animals sacred to him.' The Luiseño Indians who lived in Temescal Valley belonged to the Shoshoean linguistic group. The rock has been damaged by vandals. It is located on the east side of Temescal Canyon, 8 miles (13 km) south of Corona.[4]
The crossing occurred between what is now the cities of Riverside, on the southwest side of the river, and Jurupa Valley. A memorial to the crossing has been placed in the Martha McLean – Anza Narrows park in the city of Riverside.
This route was first used by Luiseño and Gabrieleno Indians, whose villages were nearby. Leandro Serrano established a home here in 1820. Jackson and Warner traveled this route in 1831, and Frémont in 1848. It was the Southern Emigrant Trail for gold seekers in 1849 and other immigrants to California from then on. It was the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 to 1861, part of the military road between Los Angeles and Fort Yuma from 1861 to 1866. From 1867 to 1877 it was again part of a stagecoach route between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona. With the advent of the automobile it was paved, becoming California State Route 71.[5]
From Temescal Canyon Rd, go 0.1 mi E on Dawson Canyon Rd, then go 0.1 mi NE on Gravel Pit Rd, then 0.2 mi S along railroad track berm, site is 50 ft W of berm
In tribute to the earliest record of any people in this region, the Santa Fe Railway preserved this rock with its ancient pictograph, and the Committee of the Corona Women's Improvement Club placed a tablet marking the location 7 miles (11 km) south of Corona.[6]
Chief Juan Antonio and his band of Cahuilla Indians helped Californio settlers in the San Bernardino area defend their property and livestock against outlaws and other tribal raiders during the 1840s and early 1850s. In late 1851, Juan Antonio, his warriors and their families, settled at nearby Saahatpa. During the winter of 1862–63, a smallpox epidemic swept through Southern California killing many Native Americans, including Juan Antonio and many of his people in Saahatpa. Cahuilla tradition asserts that the U.S. Government sent Army blankets that were contaminated with smallpox. After this disaster, Saahatpa was abandoned.
Leandro Serrano set out orchards and vineyards and cultivated some of the fertile lands of the Temescal Valley. In the 1840s he built his third adobe on the Rancho Temescal, which the Serrano family occupied until 1898.[10]
A record-distance non-stop flight between 12 and 14 July 1937 via the North Pole, started at Moscow, covered 11,500 kilometres (7,100 mi) in 62 hours and 17 minutes and ended in a dairy pasture outside of San Jacinto, California, after the crew had encountered fog conditions in San Diego
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