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Corona Founders

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R. B. Taylor, George L. Joy, Samuel Merrill, A. S. Garretson, and Adolph Rimpau purchased lands from the La Sierra Rancho of Bernardo Yorba and the El Temescal Grant of Leandro Serrano on May 4, 1886, and founded the citrus colony and town of Corona.
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