Linda Rosa, or Linda Rose, is a former populated place, formerly in San Diego County, now in

Riverside County, California Riverside County is a County (United States), county located in the southern California, southern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 2,418,185, making it the fourth-most ...

. The town site of Linda Rosa was located southwest of the ''old town'' of

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on the west side of

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. Linda Rosa is a name derived from Spanish meaning "pretty rose". Linda Rosa was one of the many land development schemes of the 1880s in

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. In 1887, the Santa Rosa Land & Improvement Company, belonging to the Englishman, Parker Dear, owner of the Rancho Santa Rosa subdivided the 400-acre Linda Rosa Tract Temecula at the Crossroads of History, page 69; southwest of Murrieta along the

California Southern Railroad The California Southern Railroad was a subsidiary railroad of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) in Southern California. It was organized July 10, 1880, and chartered on October 23, 1880, to build a rail connection between wha ...

line. The company spent approximately $5,000 building a depot, but the railroad did not make Linda Rosa a scheduled stop. The Linda Rosa Hotel was built by the land company in 1888 at an estimated cost of $15,000. The large hotel provided a place where visitors and land buyers could stay.Murrieta, Images of America by Marvin Curran, Loretta Barnett, Rebecca Farnbach, Murrieta, p.39,76; Linda Rosa Fruit Canning and Preserving Company was formed on June 30, 1888, to grow and can fruit and vegetables. Linda Rosa had its own post office, Linda Rose, from November 20, 1888, to March 20, 1890. When the land boom went bust, the town lots failed to sell and the office was closed and mail service was moved to Temecula Station.Charles A. Higgins, New guide to the Pacific coast, Santa Fé route: California, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois, Rand, McNally, and Company, Chicago and New York, 1894, p.224. The hotel was torn down and used to build a house. With the failure of his development, Parker Dear went bankrupt and lost the rancho to his bank in 1893.

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Map of Linda Rosa San Diego County, California, Santa Rosa Land & Improvement Co. A. Hart, President., (1887); "Situated on California Southern R.R. 60 miles from San Diego. 119 miles from Los Angeles. The future manufacturing and agricultural Center of Southern California."
from Huntingon Digital Library website hdl.huntington.org. {{Riverside County, California Ghost towns in California Former settlements in Riverside County, California