California History
Redlands, the citrus belt and the people who built California's orange empire.
Smudge pots and frost nights in the California groves
By 1915 Southern California's citrus groves held at least a million oil-burning heaters. What a smudge pot did on a frost night, why California legislated...
California Didn’t Just Grow Roses—It Made Rose History
California played an outsized role in American rose history. From nineteenth-century Riverside climbing sports to twentieth-century breakthroughs from Armstrong Nurseries and Descanso Gardens, these five...
Who Invented the Fruit Sticker? It Started With Redlands Oranges
Those little labels on apples, bananas and oranges have an unexpected California history. Redlands citrus grower and inventor William N. Moore patented an early system...