Lake
Elsinore is Southern California's largest natural lake and home
to numerous outdoor activities including boating, camping, jet skiing,
motocross and some of the best sky diving in the Southwest. Lake
Elsinore also has world-famous thermals, professional Single A baseball
at The Diamond Stadium and over 100 stores to shop at the Lake Elsinore
Outlet Center.
The City of Lake Elsinore was incorporated on April 23 1888 through
the efforts of pioneer/financier, Franklin H. Heald. In the early
1880s, Heald's partner, D. M. Graham, wrote this vision for their
new city, "We can imagine no more enchanting picture than Elsinore
will present when the taste and energy of the settlers shall have
made it a valley of fruit and flowers in the midst of which the
lake shall lie like a priceless gem in its casket." The first choice
for a name for this community was Laguna, but it was already taken
by Laguna Beach. In 1883, they
settled for Elsinore, liking the sound of the Shakespearean setting.
The "lake" wasn't added to the city's name until 1972.
One the fastest growing cities in Riverside County, the present
day population of Lake Elsinore is approximately 33,000.
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