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- Dedicated to expanding Brigham Young's religious empire, the religious pioneers purchased 35,000 acres of the San Bernardino Rancho in 1851, for $77,500, with a down payment of $7,000. Having heard tales about the Indian attacks, the Mormons quickly built a stockade around the rancho and named it Fort San Bernardino.
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When the Mormons arrived in 1851, there was wide spread fear of a general uprising among the Utes, Chemehuevis and other desert Indians. The Mormons decided to build a fort similar to a stockade built in Salt Lake on the arrival of Mormons at that point.
Fort San Bernardino, California, also called the Mormon Stockade, and Mormon Camp was built when an Indian attack threatened the fledgling settlement of San Bernardino.
In May 1886, the City of San Bernardino reincorporated as a city 5th class (a distinction that is no longer observed by California law). In the 1891, pursuant to the congressional Act for Relief for Mission Indians, the San Manuel Indian Reservation was established.
In 1851 Mormons built a 300-by-720-foot, 12-foot-high stockade when the town of San Bemardino was threatened d by an Indian attack. The post, later renamed Fort San Bemardino, soon extended far beyond its original limits.
The first mission was established on May 20, 1810, and was named “San Bernardino” after the patron saint of the day on the Catholic Calendar. The missionaries also taught the Indians how to plant and irrigate crops, and the valley began to flourish.
Having heard tales about the Indian attacks, the Mormons quickly built a stockade around the rancho and named it Fort San Bernardino. The families lived inside the stockade for the first few years, growing wheat and other crops outside and building a grain mill inside.
Together with Hunt, they established a colony. Upon their arrival in San Bernardino, there was a legitimate fear of an uprising among the Utes, Chemehuevis and other desert Indians. To secure themselves from this threat, the Mormons resolved to build a fort similar to a stockade built in Salt Lake.
