Norco hasn't always been the rural horse community it is now either lovingly or hatefully known as. The name "Norco" came from a purchase by the North Corona Land Company, and has been retained since. As stated in Norco Remembers, Norco started out as vacant land, "part of a Mexican grant

To finish off the phasing process and explain the sites current usage, the Naval Weapons Surface Center moved in next door to the CRC, then commissioned to be a naval laboratory. The NSWC conducts research and development, engineering and testing of weapons delivery systems for the U.S. Navy. (Ghiotto B-3) "The lab opened in 1957 as the Naval Ordinance Laboratory. But it had its beginnings in 1953, when the Corona laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards was transferred to the Navy Bureau of Ordinance. ...And over the years, research and development work assigned to the center increased as the field of missile technology advanced. Much of the work completed there was highly classified." (B-3) In 1971, the center was threatened to be closed but was halted by the Navy and the Defense Department because of legislative efforts of then Representative Victor Veysey and community opposition. This led to the expansion of Riverside Community College into the three campus we now know it to have. "In 1084, RCC waged a successful campaign for 141 acres of the laboratory's land for its Norco campus. The college and the Corona-Norco Unified School District both put in bids seeking donations of land. The school district was unsuccessful in its request." (B-3) Had RCC not won the battle, I would most likely not be writing this paper.

Another change ensued with the war being over, adding one of the last phases to the grand hotel's belt. On March 2, 1962, Governor Edmund G. Brown announced that the federal government would donate the facility to the state to be used as the California Rehabilitation center, a medium security correctional facility. "The 90-acre facility is now surrounded by double chain link fences, topped with barbed wire and concertina wire. Guards are stationed along the fence, visitors are screened before they can enter. And occasionally violence erupts among the narcotic-addict inmates. The facility today is designed to rehabilitate addicts in a program approved by the State Legislature nearly 20 years ago." (Hayward 1) "When the first 20 inmates were driven through the hills on the western edge of this community, they approached a sprawling 90-acre complex of buildings, many of them crumbling with decay and disuse, which bore only a ghost of a resemblance to the former great, roaring days of a luxury hotel." (1) The source is unclear, but I have been told that within the last 30 years of its operation there have only been 5 documented escapes from the gates, one of which I was told that two of the prisoners beat up two of the guards, stole their uniforms and walked off the property! I have my doubts about this story, but it is interesting none the less. Many stories have been told on this subject, but this one has obviously been the most widely talked about. The prison has been a large part of Norco, but when you ask someone who is a citizen of even a neighboring city if they have heard of the Norco prison, the only response you receive is "the Norco what?!".

At first, Norco resident

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