Old dudes are asleep...

Im assuming you refer to nearby Apple Valley, California???

The naming of Apple Valley is historically associated with area pioneer, John F. Appleton.

There was, however, a well known apple orchard that was owned by Max Ihmsen, publisher of the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.

In 1915, he developed 320 acres (1.3 km2) of apples and pears. The fame of Apple Valley spread as Ihmsen’s fruit won many agricultural awards. In the late 1930s, Ihmsen's son-in-law, Cal Godshall, took over the business operations and made the ranch famous as the birthplace of California college rodeo with the first intercollegiate rodeo competition ever held in the United States.
Then there is Palmdale CA named after the Joshua trees that were mistaken for palm trees by the people that discovered this land in the high desert. Then again Columbus also named the indigenous people of this land "Indians" when he got lost.
 
Back
Top