Mt. Rubidoux

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Description

<p><b>Mount Rubidoux</b> is a hill in the city of <a href="/pages/w/113168482030203">Riverside, California</a>, United States, that has been designated a city park and landmark. The hill was once a popular <a href="/pages/w/109470432405402">Southern California</a> tourist destination and is still the site of the oldest outdoor non-denominational Easter <a href="/pages/w/110044685684013">Sunrise service</a> in the United States. Many historic markers and memorials have been placed on the hill, the most prominent being the cross at the summit dedicated to Father <a href="/pages/w/135041073194422">Junípero Serra</a>.</p><p>The <a href="/pages/w/103729166333010">Santa Ana River</a> flows at the base of the hill, marking the boundary between the city of Riverside and the <a href="/pages/w/103763312995581">Rubidoux</a> neighborhood of the ttc City of <a href="/pages/w/101163386634996">Jurupa Valley</a>.</p><p>The hill was named for <a href="/pages/w/103257919727398">Louis Rubidoux</a>, who established <i>Rancho Rubidoux</i> in 1847, after purchasing a portion of the <a href="/pages/w/109385662421532">Rancho Jurupa</a> from <a href="/pages/w/113167255399722">Benjamin Davis Wilson</a>, the second elected mayor of Los Angeles.</p><h2>History</h2><p>Tom Patterson, as well as most local Riverside historians, have concluded that the original name of Mount Rubidoux was Pachappa. They speculate that one of the early owners of <a href="/pages/w/109385662421532">Rancho Jurupa</a> reassigned the name Pachappa to another, smaller hill, in order to expand the property of the Rancho. Since Pachappa hill was designated as the southeast marker of the Jurupa Rancho, which was granted by the Mexican government to Juan Bandini in 1838, reassigning the name to the current <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachappa_Hill" class="wikipedia">Pachappa Hill</a> would have expanded the Rancho Jurupa significantly, incorporating all of the area covered by today's downtown Riverside. It is also possible the United States government renamed the hills in order to satisfy acreage requirements of the original Mexican land Grant.</p>

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Mt. Rubidoux is Riverside based place and this enity listed in Mountain category. Contact phone number of Mt. Rubidoux: <<not-applicable>>