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Mira Loma (Spanish for "Look Hill"), now officially part of Jurupa Valley, was a census-designated place (CDP) in Riverside County, California, United States. Its population was 21,930 in the 2010 census, up from 17,617 in the 2000 census. Mira Loma was known as Wineville prior to 1930.
Aug 27, 2011 · An article popped up which said that as of November 1, 1930 Wineville would cease to exist and the town would be known as Mira Loma. Because the area was unincorporated, changing the name required a name change for the post office and for the Union Pacific railroad station.
May 30, 2011 · In August 1928, authorities were tipped off to what was going on. at the so-called “murder farm” in Riverside County. Northcott and his mother fled to their native Canada, triggering. an international manhunt. They were ultimately apprehended. there. Northcott’s trial at Riverside’s historic courthouse drew. widespread news coverage.
- Kurt Snibbe
Historic events. Between 1926 and 1928 the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, a series of abductions and murders of young boys, took place within Jurupa Valley city limits. At the time the community of Wineville was unincorporated. Today it is the Jurupa Valley neighborhood of Mira Loma.
Jul 17, 2012 · For twenty-five years, I have heard the story of brutal murders of children in the Wineville District and that it was so notorious that in 1931, the name of the town, Wineville, was changed to Mira Loma, which means "view of the hills." The date of the murders was about 15 May, 1928. Excerpts of the news accounts: Riverside Press, Saturday ...
The people of Jurupa valley have been carving their place in the world even before the earliest settlers from Europe arrived in the 1870s. Over time, small towns arose as development occurred, including West Riverside (later Rubidoux), Glen Avon, and Wineville (later Mira Loma).
Jul 18, 2018 · The southern California town certainly existed, although it abruptly “vanished” in 1930, replaced suddenly by Mira Loma. What had happened was the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders – crimes so heinous that the townspeople couldn’t bear to be associated with “Wineville” any longer.
