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San Bernardino is the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. As of 2005 the California Department
of Finance estimates the
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population at 199,803. Currently, freeway entry signs state the population is 201,823. Some areas, particularly north of downtown, have a density beyond design capacity, including garage
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conversions. Although rapid residential development is transforming the city into a bedroom community, manufacturing remains a major industry in San Bernardino and the surrounding cities. It is an anchor city of the Inland Empire. San Bernardino has three major events, the annual Route 66 Rendezvous [1]a multi-day automobile event held in downtown San Bernardino each
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September, the National Orange Show [2], held each April/May, and the Western Regional Little League Championships in the summer.
San Bernardino's original known inhabitants were Serrano Indians who spent their winters in the valley, and their summers in the cooler mountains. They were known as the "Yuhaviatam" or People of the Pines. They have lived in the valley since approximately 1000 B.C. They lived in small brush covered structures
Spanish Military Commander of California Pedro Fages probably entered San Bernardino valley in 1772. Missionary
priest Father Francisco Garces entered the valley in 1774, as did the Anza Expedition, though not in present-day San Bernardino.
The traditional (since there is a dispute as to the following events) founding and naming of San Bernardino is that Father Francisco Dumetz made a trip from the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel to the San Bernardino Valley on May 20, 1810, the feast day of Saint Bernardino of Siena (San Bernardino in Spanish) during California's Mission Period.
The San Bernardino skyline viewed from Grand Terrace, CaliforniaIn 1819, the San Gabriel Mission created an Estancia at an Indian settlement called Guachama, the site of which is in modern-day Redlands, and
Rancho San Bernardino. A group of adobe buildings were constructed around 1830. The site was closed when Governor Figueroa closed down the mission system in 1834. The site would later be known as "Old San Bernardino."