Agua Mansa | |
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Coordinates: 34°02′31″N 117°21′50″W / 34.04194°N 117.36389°W | |
Country | United States of America |
State | California |
County | San Bernardino |
Elevation | 922 ft (281 m) |
Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
GNIS feature ID | 238451 |
Agua Mansa Cemetery | |
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Built | 1845 |
Designated | May 15, 1933 |
Reference no. | 121 |
Agua Mansa (Spanish for "gentle water")[2] is a former settlement in an unincorporated area of San Bernardino County, near Colton, California, United States. Once the largest settlement in San Bernardino County, it is now a ghost town. Only the cemetery remains.[3]
The town was established in 1842 in early California Alta California.[4] It was on the Santa Ana River, across from the era settlement of La Placita.[5] Agua Mansa and La Placita were the first non-native settlements in the San Bernardino Valley.[6] Together known as "San Salvador",[7] they were also the largest settlements between Santa Fe de Nuevo México and the Pueblo de Los Ángeles in the 1840s.[8]
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