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1. The community of Newberry Springs, east of Barstow, has hosted championship water-skiing competitions.  
2. Oranges were first grown commercially in the County in Redlands in the late 1850's.  
3. Barstow was originally called Waterman Junction after the nearby Waterman silver mine.  
4. The nation's first solar-thermal power plant was built in Daggett.  
5. Although he never was a resident there, Rancho Cucamonga has a statue of Jack Benny.  
6. Old Dad Mountain is not in the Old Dad Mountains.  
7. San Bernardino County is home to the world's largest Joshua tree and was home to the largest lodge pole pine tree until the Forest Service blew it up it up with dynamite.  
8. The largest planting of grapevines in the State were once in San Bernardino County.  
9. The first home with electricity west of the Rockies was in Ontario.  
10. The San Andreas fault created the Cajon Pass between the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains.  

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