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East Los Angeles was founded in 1870 by John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), who was called "the father of East Los Angeles". [1] In late 1874 the two men offered an additional thirty-five acres, divided into 65x165-foot lots, for $150 each.
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Raymond Lee Washington was born in Los Angeles, California, on August 14, 1953, the youngest of four sons to Violet Samuel and Reginald Cecil Washington. [4] His parents separated when he was two years old, and he was raised by his mother and stepfather.
Eastside Los Angeles — the eastern neighborhoods in the City of Los Angeles and central-eastern communities of Los Angeles County, California. The region is located east of Downtown Los Angeles and south of the San Gabriel Valley .
When conditions led to the founding of a new, even bigger cemetery on the other side of the Los Angeles River in 1896—in East Los Angeles—the property of the historic cemetery was put to other uses. At the time, many Italians began moving into the north side of Los Angeles, where they founded a new church on north Spring Street.
In return for a zoning variance to permit the cemetery, the founders of Evergreen gave the City of Los Angeles a 9-acre (36,000 m 2) parcel of the proposed cemetery in 1877 for use as an indigent graveyard, often referred as a "potter's field." [7] Ownership of the indigent cemetery passed from the City to the County of Los Angeles in 1917. At ...
Howard Edward Dorsey (July 10, 1904 – August 7, 1937) was a hydraulic engineer who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council in 1937. He was the only council member since at least 1925 to die in office from accidental death and the member to have served the fewest days in office.
Lincoln Heights is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California, United States.It was originally called "East Los Angeles" from 1873 to 1917. It is a densely populated, mostly Latino and Asian neighborhood that includes many historic landmarks and was known as "the Bedroom of the Pueblo".