Coronado, California

Their intention was to create a resort community, and in 1886, the Coronado Beach Company was organized.

The community's first post office predates Coronado's incorporation, established on February 8, 1887, with Norbert Moser assigned as the first postmaster.

By 1888, they had built Hotel del Coronado, and the city became a major resort destination.

It was founded in the 1880s and incorporated in 1890.

Other sources say Oz was inspired by the "White City" of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.

Golf on Coronado started in 1897 with a nine-hole golf course hosting the 1905 Southern California Open.

In 1900, a tourist/vacation area just south of Hotel del Coronado was established by John D.

As American settlers moved into the area, the Kumeyaay were pushed out of Coronado, with the last six Kumeyaay families deported to Mesa Grande Reservation in 1902.

What is now the Naval Air Station North Island was the first US flying school, founded in 1911 by Glenn Curtiss.

– first Republican mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, born in Coronado in 1913.

On New Year's Day 1937, during the Great Depression, the gambling ship SS Monte Carlo, known for "drinks, dice, and dolls", was shipwrecked on the beach about a quarter mile (40...

These streetcars became a fixture of the city until their retirement in 1939.

Over the years, the tents gave way to cottages, the last of which was torn down in late 1940 or early 1941.

The development of North Island by the United States Navy prior to and during World War II led to the filling of the bight by July 1944, combining the land areas into a single b...

In 1946, an African-American man from Coronado named Alton Collier was forced off of a San Diego and Coronado ferry by white sailors.

==== Navy ==== Captain Ward Boston, USN – World War II Navy fighter pilot, then attorney for the Naval Board of Review which investigated the 1967 USS Liberty Incident Admiral C...

From 1968 to 1988, each Republican presidential candidate received over 70% of the vote.

In 1969, the San Diego–Coronado Bridge was opened, allowing much faster transit between the cities than bay ferries or driving via State Route 75 along the Silver Strand.

According to a recent county-wide ZIP code chart published in The San Diego Union-Tribune in August 2006, the median cost of a single-family home within the city's ZIP code of 9...

In 2007, the Coronado Police Department and the city was sued in civil courts after a Coronado police officer in civilian clothes shot multiple times the professional football p...

In 2008, the Travel Channel rated Coronado Beach as the sixth-best beach in America.

In 2010, Forbes.com found that the median home price in Coronado had risen to $1,840,665.

Coronado has long been a Republican stronghold; in 2013, about 47% of voters were registered Republican, 25% Democratic, and 24% nonpartisan.

In 2016, Donald Trump won Coronado with a plurality of the vote, and Hillary Clinton received the largest share of the vote for a Democratic candidate since at least 1960.

Its population was 20,192 in 2020.

In 2023, 66.2% of those aged 25 and over had a bachelor's degree or higher.

The case was ruled a suicide until 2024, when the Equal Justice Initiative declared a lynching.