T-Shirts:   Tuesday June 10^th official T-shirts will be on sale for $15.00 at the Redlands City Clerk’s Office.    The shirt will also be sold at the committee booth in Sylvan Park on the 4^th.  

The 2009 shirt design (shown here) features one of the stone bridges crossing the historic Zanja in Sylvan Park.  

As Tom Atchley has said in an article that appeared in the Redlands Daily Facts on Dec 10, 2006, "A Bicentennial Landmark of California History Resources Commission 1776-1976," is labeled in bronze on the plaque in Sylvan Park.  He went on to say, "Spanish Missionaries introduced the principle of irrigation in the San Bernardino Valley, thus opening the way to settlement. Franciscan Fathers engineered, and Indians dug, the first ditch (or zanja) in 1819-1820. In historical sequence, the Zanja supported the San Bernardino Estancia, Rancho San Bernardino, Mormon settlers, San Bernardino pioneer ranchers, orchards and Redlands' domestic water supply."  The article also points out that, "This is California registered landmark No. 43 and was dedicated by the Redlands Kiwanis Club, Redlands City Park Department and San Bernardino County Museum Association in 1965."