Menifee Mom 🐝 on Instagram: "Here are three things many people don’t know about Menifee, California — beyond the basics of being a fast-growing Inland Empire city:  1. It’s Named After an Old Gold Claim — Not a Person or Place While most people know Menifee is named after a miner, the story behind it is unusual: in 1883, a miner named Luther Menifee Wilson found a quartz ledge with gold near what is now Holland and Murrieta Roads. He called his claim the “Menifee” mine, and the name stuck — fi