The Samuel Schlador Family of Moreno

These are the Schlador girls pointed out. The back of this photo reads, "In the old grade school building on Alessandro Blvd around 1905"

These historical photos can be found in the “Images of America, Moreno Valley” book available through the Moreno Valley Historical Society’s on-line store. Please click on store. The 127-page book of images makes a great gift with sections on Moreno; Alessandro; March Air Force Base and Camp Haan; Edgemont; Sunnymead; Maxwell Ranch and Banta Ranch. The Historical Society has big goals for the new year including a local history museum in Moreno Valley. All purchases from our on-line store move us financially closer to those goals. We have books, mugs, hats and more. The site is set up to receive donations as well. Thank you.

Fred T. Perris (1837-1916) The man for whom Lake Perris State Recreation Area, the City of Perris and Perris Hill Park in San Bernardino are all named.

The Banta family malt shop and grill was located on Sunnymead Boulevard across from Back Way for many of the early years of Sunnymead, today's Moreno Valley.

Found in the Moreno Valley Historical Society’s archives is this first-hand account written many years ago by Elizabeth Ann Swegles Berry telling of the big accident on Sunnymead Boulevard in the late 1940s.

“I recall the accident on Sunnymead Blvd. (highway 60). We lived the second door down (east). Mother, Grandma and I were there within minutes of the crash. The sound was so loud and terrible. I don’t remember the date of the accident, but Winifred Banta may remember as it happened on their property and in front of th...

With “Get the pump and start the motor, I can’t stand that cesspool odor,” Jan Carr of Webster Street was the first-place winner of the Sunnymead Sewer Bonds Jingle Contest in 1966, winning a $25 U.S. Savings Bond.

Carl Oscar Lantz and his bride, Hilma Alexina (Isakson) Lantz in 1895.

Carl Oscar Lantz was born in Sweden in 1867. Oscar traveled from Liverpool, England to New York in 1885 on the ship, Britannic. From New York, he moved to Iowa then to Riverside before finally landing in Moreno valley in 1891. Oscar bought 10 acres near the corner of Nason and Alessandro and began to grow grapes. After a grasshopper invasion destroyed his grape crop, Mr. Lantz turned to oranges. In 1895 Oscar married Hilma Isakson of Iowa, also a native of Sweden. They built a home on their Nason Street acreage. Mr. Lantz planted the very first five-acres of citrus in the valley according to memories shared by his son, Car...

1946 Ercoupe sitting on the landing strip on the Colby property. According to the College Park Aviation Museum, “The Ercoupe was manufactured by the Engineering and Research Corporation (ERCO) in nearby Riverdale, MD, to be spin-proof, stall-proof, and slip-proof. It was marketed as simple, safe, and a plane that "anyone could fly."

THE COLBY RANCH

“The Colby ranch was purchased by my father, Lyall William (Bill) Colby, in 1948 when he retired from his ostrich plume company in Hollywood. My mother, Karen Colby, met Bill when she was a costume designer for Paramount Studios in Hollywood. By Bill’s account, he was the second owner of the ranch after the Indians. He purchased i...