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Riverside 's downtown area includes the "Mission Inn District", after the Mission Inn, a hotel that was modeled after the missions left along the California coast by Franciscan friars in the eighteenth century. Contrary to popular belief, the Mission Inn Hotel is not a mission, but was built in the mission revival style of the nineteen thirties. Although missionaries of the era actually came as far inland as San Bernardino , east of Riverside , there was no actual Spanish mission in what is now Riverside . After secularization of the missions, the land was designated Rancho Jurupa and was granted to Juan Bandini, who later divided the rancho into two parts and sold them to two Yankees-turned-ranchéros, Benjamin D. "Benito" Wilson and Abel Stearns. The first orange trees were planted in eighteen seventy-one, but the citrus industry Riverside is famous for began two years later when Eliza Tibbets received two Brazilian navel orange trees sent to her by a friend at the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC. The trees thrived in the Southern California climate and the navel orange industry grew rapidly. Within a few years, the successful cultivation of the newly discovered navel orange led to a California Gold Rush of a different kind: the establishment of the citrus industry, which is commemorated in the landscapes and exhibits of the California Citrus State Historic Park and the restored packing houses in the Downtown's Marketplace district. By eighteen eighty-two, there were more than half a million citrus trees in California , almost half of which were in Riverside . The development of refrigerated railroad cars and innovative irrigation systems established Riverside as the wealthiest city per capita by eighteen ninety-five. Riverside used to boast one of the largest Chinatowns in California , but the last resident, Mr. Wong, died in the nineteen seventies and the remaining, but decrepit, buildings were razed. Extensive archaeological excavation took place in the nineteen eighties, and many artifacts are housed at the newly re-named Metropolitan Museum across from the Mission Inn Hotel. To the east of downtown is the originally named "Eastside" which grew out of a colonia inhabited by Mexican immigrant workers in the Orange groves. Mexican communities were also formed in the barrio of Casa Blanca during the early twentieth century. That tradition continues today, with Oaxacan workers in the place of Spanish speakers. Michael Kearney, an anthropologist at University of California , Riverside , refers to this vast transnational labor space as "Oaxacalifornia.". Settlements of Japanese and Korean immigrants used to exist along the railroad tracks, which would fill with thousands of workers during the citrus harvest. None of these remain, but the Santa Fe depot, like several others in the Inland Empire , has been restored to its turn-of-the-century glory. Today, many of Riverside 's Asian Americans live in the sections of Arlington and La Sierra, the majority being Chinese American and Korean American. The largest Korean American church in the city is Riverside Korean Baptist Church near Arlington .
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