In 1871, a navel orange was introduced from Bahia, Brazil, to the United States Department of Agriculture. Eliza and Luther Tibbets moved from Washington, D.C., to Riverside in 1873, and because Eliza had become acquainted in Washington with William Saunders, superintendent for gardens and grounds of the Department of Agriculture, Riverside nurseryman and orchardist Samuel McCoy asked her to request several promising orange varieties for trial in Riverside, including the South American navel orange. Two Bahia Navel Orange trees arrived in 1873 by rail, stagecoach, and buckboard wagon, and the variety became known as the Riverside Navel. As other local orange-growing communities were founded in Redlands, Corona, and Bryn Maw, competitive real estate developers wanted to avoid the name Riverside, so the Riverside Navel Orange was renamed the Washington Navel. In 1881, 4,300 boxes of navel oranges were produced in Riverside County, and by 1898, thanks in part to the advent of cold-storage train cars, 1,569,800 boxes of oranges were being produced annually from Riverside County.