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Ontario was a planned community with many modern innovations, many of which
still show merit today. Euclid Avenue was laid out exactly 200 feet wide,
stretching from the Pacific Railway station to the base of the mountains, San
Antonio Heights. Provisions were made for an electric railway, water
rights for each landowner, and a local educational institution. The
original education facility was named Chaffey College of Agriculture, which
opened in 1885. In 1901 it became Ontario High School, and then in 1911,
when the school was opened up to Upland residents, the name was changed to
Chaffey High School.
Chaffey College, no longer the original college under the University of
Southern California, was founded and it shared the same campus as the high
school until 1960. Other provisions initiated by the Chaffeys were electric
lights and one of the first long distance telephone lines, to name just some of
the innovations planned and developed for Ontario.
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pioneer in rural planning and Chaffey's mutual water company is seen as one of
the major social inventions of the west. The Model Colony set a new
standard for rural communities and remains the classic pattern for irrigation
projects and as such was the "model" imitated by many other
"colony" endeavors. |
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Chaffey High School's colors were at one time
"Crimson" but were later changed to Orange and Black. Many
people know the Chaffey Alma Mater's first stanza but few know the second or
third (they're pretty neat).
Chaffey High School's
Alma Mater (song)
Chaffey High School's The Orange and the Black
(song)
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