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Renting an Apartment in Beaumont
Beaumont is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. The
population is 28,250 as of January 1, 2007. Beaumont was California's fastest
growing city in 2006 as it grew 21.2% in that year.
During the early 1850s many surveying parties passed through the vicinity of
present-day Beaumont in search of a pass that would connect the east to the
Pacific Ocean. The San Gorgonio Pass was discovered in 1853 by a surveying
expedition under Lieutenant R.S. Williamson, who was sent by the United States
government. Its discovery enthralled many who now saw connecting to the ocean a
feasible measure and led to plans for connecting a railway from the Missouri
River to the Pacific. By the early 1860s the Union Pacific Railroad had laid
tracks through the modern-day location of Beaumont. At the summit of the pass, a
site was founded and named Edgar Station after a physician from one of the
original expedition parties. Edgar Station served as a rest stop for railway
travellers from the Mojave Desert on their way to the Los Angeles vicinity. Soon
Edgar Station changed its name to San Gorgonio, named by a real estate
development company, and it gradually attracted permanent residents.
The sleepy town of San Gorgonio became recognized as an incorporated California
city on November 18, 1912 and adopted its current name of Beaumont (French for
"beautiful mountain"). As of 1927 the town boasted a small population of 857
with five churches, a public library, a bank, a high school, two local
newspapers, several lumber yards, commercial packing houses, and a dehydrating
plant. The city was dubbed "the land of the big red apple" by local residents in
its early years, being one of Riverside County's largest apple growers. Apple
plantation in and around the town expanded a $200,000 industry by 1930. Beaumont
saw a rise in visitors and residents as the little-known nearby city of Palm
Springs to the east grew to become a highly popular resort spot in the 1930s and
beyond; thus Beaumont followed suit and attempted to capitalize on the tourism
by establishing guest ranches. According to an early 1930s/1940s postcard, the
Highland Springs Guest Ranch of Beaumont offered its patrons horseback riding,
tennis, archery, horseshoes, swimming, shuffle-board, ping pong, baseball,
ballroom dancing, massage, basketball, as well as a place to spend the night.
During the Cold War, a Lockheed rocket test site was established just to the
south, outside of the town, until it was sold in January of 2004. The site's use
of toxic chemicals has contaminated the water of local streams, hurting efforts
to establish a wildlife preserve of nearby scenic canyons. With the housing boom
in the early decade, the urban sprawl reached the last remaining valleys of the
Inland Empire. With Beaumont's close proximity to Los Angeles, various Southern
California residents flocked to the San Gorgonio Pass region for its low housing
cost, causing a 20% jump in the city's population, making it the fastest growing
city in the State. This has concerned many local residents, who cite
increasing student population in schools, rising demand on the water supply and
increasing traffic in and out of the city on Interstate 10 in both directions.
The 1995 movie "How to Make an American Quilt" filmed many of its driving scenes
through Beaumont. Local wildlife in the surrounding vicinity include quails,
coyotes, and foxes. Today the town is home to many antique store establishments
dating back several decades, including the Nettie and Alice Museum of Hobbies
and the modern-day Beaumont Antique Mall.There is also a new Wal-Mart
Supercenter, a Home Depot Home Improvement Center, Applebee's, and a Panda
Express.
The California Highway Patrol has a regional office on the Beaumont side of
Highland Springs Avenue(its jurisdiction goes from Calimesa to the west to
Desert Hot Springs to the east, as well as Hemet and San Jacinto to the south}.
Beaumont has its own police department and contracts for fire services with the
Riverside County Fire Department through a cooperative agreement with Cal
Fire(California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection). Beaumont is also
the childhood home of current NASA Astronaut and STS-118 crew member Tracy E.
Caldwell.