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El Monte is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.The city lies in the San Gabriel Valley, east of the city of Los Angeles.. El Monte's slogan is "Welcome to Friendly El Monte" and is historically known as "The End of the Santa Fe Trail".
The state marker for the Santa Fe Trail Historical Park is located at 3564 Santa Anita Ave, El Monte, CA 91731. The City of El Monte held a ceremony to dedicate the Santa Fe Trail Historical Park on June 2, 1989. [1] [2] El Monte built the (now closed) Santa Fe Trail Historical Park in 1989, near Valley Blvd and Santa Anita Ave. The one-acre ...
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El Monte is near the end of the Santa Fe Trail and the Southern Emigrant Trail, thus near the end is the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in Southern California, Savannah Memorial Park Cemetery. The park is also on the route used during the 1800s to transport wood and other supplies to the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel .
Gay's Lion Farm was a public selective breeding facility and tourist attraction just west of the south-east junction of Peck Road and Valley Boulevard in El Monte, California. It operated from 1925 through 1942, when it was closed temporarily due to wartime meat shortages. It never reopened.
The El Monte Busway (also known as the I-10 ExpressLanes) is a 12-mile (19 km) shared-use express bus corridor and high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes running along Interstate 10 (San Bernardino Freeway) between Alameda Street near Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles and a point west of Interstate 605 (I-605) in El Monte, California.
Garvey Avenue is a west-east thoroughfare in the San Gabriel Valley.It is named after Richard Garvey Sr., a former postal horse rider and ranch owner who donated part of his land to create the thoroughfare, which became an important link between Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley, especially prior to the establishment of the Interstate Highway System.
The El Monte Shopping Center was a major shopping center, for decades the largest shopping center in El Monte, California, at 400 Peck Road just north of the San Bernardino Freeway.