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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