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...that Kimberly Crest, a Victorian mansion and California historic landmark was donated to the city of Redlands as part of a botanical park?
...that the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway was San Francisco's first electric streetcar company?
...that the origins of Castle Lake in California date to the Pleistocene Era (more than 10,000 years ago) when a glacier carved a basin in the location of the current lake?

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