Alessandro is an
unincorporated community
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in
Riverside County
Riverside County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,418,185, making it the fourth-most populous county in California and the 10th-most populous in the Uni ...
,
California
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.
Alessandro is located on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, east of
Riverside.
It lies at an elevation of 1535 feet (468 m).
The town was laid out in 1887 and named for the hero in the novel ''
Ramona
''Ramona'' is a 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War, it portrays the life of a mixed-race Scottish– Native American orphan girl, who suffers racial discrimination and ...
''.
[ The Alessandro post office operated from 1888 to 1902.][
]
References
Founded by Alessandro Ingram
Populated places established in 1887
Unincorporated communities in Riverside County, California
Unincorporated communities in California
1887 establishments in California
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