{"id":19726,"date":"2019-04-19T19:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T19:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/?p=19726"},"modified":"2022-02-16T00:17:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T00:17:06","slug":"april-22-program-history-of-the-mill-creek-zanja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/articles\/april-22-program-history-of-the-mill-creek-zanja\/","title":{"rendered":"April 22, 2019 Program: History of the Mill Creek Zanja"},"content":{"rendered":"

The April program of the Historical Society will be a slide show presentation by Tom Atchley encompasses the \u201cHistory of the Mill Creek Zanja\u201d for its entire twelve-mile length.\u00a0\u00a0 The presentation will take place in the Contemporary Clubhouse, 173 S. Eureka Street at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

The Mill Creek Zanja celebrates a bicentennial year this spring. \u00a0The Redlands Conservancy has completed a linear park and walking path from Lincoln Street to Wabash.\u00a0\u00a0 The Historical Society plans a September plaque unveiling in Sylvan Park.<\/p>\n

Mill Creek Zanja is a Bicentennial Landmark of the California Resources Commission and California Registered Landmark Number 43.\u00a0 The Zanja has been recognized by the Redlands City Parks Department, San Bernardino County Museum and has a National Register designation as well.\u00a0 The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors was presented a certification that the Zanja was a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972.<\/p>\n

Zanja history was first celebrated in the history of Redlands by Edith Parker Hinckley in her book titled, \u201cOn the Banks of the Zanja.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Recently, \u00a0\u00a0Tom Atchley gave a bus tour of the Zanja in March for the Redlands Area Historical Society. \u201cDriving Tour of the Mill Creek Zanja\u201d was published by the Redlands Conservancy in 2009.\u00a0\u00a0 Booklets may be purchased at the Citrograph Print shop on East State Street.<\/p>\n

Tom Atchley and the Redlands Junior Historical Society researched and wrote the driving tour. Atchley is a retired social studies teacher at Redlands High and was advisor for the Junior Historical Society.\u00a0 He is a member of the Save the Zanja Committee of the Redlands Conservancy.\u00a0 Atchley has presented walking tours of historic neighborhoods, downtown Redlands and teaches a class on Redlands History with Dr. Larry Burgess twice each year.<\/p>\n

The power point program follows the course of the Zanja from Mill Creek above Greenspot to Loma Linda and Mountain View Avenue.\u00a0 Native Americans, Spanish priests, Mexican land grant owners, mountain men and some of the first settlers of the San Bernardino Valley all played a role in the history of the Mill Creek Zanja.\u00a0\u00a0 This irrigation ditch signifies the beginning of agricultural development in the San Bernardino Valley.<\/p>\n

The program is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

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The April program of the Historical Society will be a slide show presentation by Tom Atchley encompasses the \u201cHistory of the Mill Creek Zanja\u201d for its entire twelve-mile length.\u00a0\u00a0 The presentation will take place in the Contemporary Clubhouse, 173 S. Eureka Street at 7 p.m. The Mill Creek Zanja celebrates a bicentennial year this spring. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,65,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}