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The Indiana Colony is the name of the cooperative who originally settled in the area known today as Pasadena, California, United States, as well as their first name for the area they settled. The group was incorporated on January 31, 1874, by Indiana residents seeking warmer weather after the exceptionally cold winter of 1872–73. [ 1 ]
Old Pasadena's center is the postal zero/zero intersection for the city of Pasadena at Fair Oaks Avenue (N-S) and Colorado Boulevard (E-W). The first of the businesses of the original Indiana Colony were established at old Pasadena.
[4] Due to its euphonious nature, Pasadena was chosen, put to a vote, and accepted, though maps from the Wheeler Survey of 1878 show the names "Indiana Colony" and "Pasadena" in the same location. In March 1886, Pasadena became the second incorporated municipality, after the city of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles County.
Griffin then sold 2,500 acres (10 km 2) of his property to the "Indiana Colony," represented by Daniel M. Berry. In 1876, after the Colony had sold most of its allotted land and established what became the City of Pasadena, Wilson began subdividing and developing his adjacent landholdings which became the eastern side of the new settlement.
Thus began the search for a new name for the town which would end up being Pasadena. [2] In 1883, she married Arturo Bandini (1853–1913), son of Juan Bandini and Refugio Argüello. They had two children. Her husband was a scholar and authored several books, including Navidad, a description of Christmas in Old California. [1] [3] [4]
Anytime Notre Dame visits USC or IU faces Big Ten rival UCLA, remember the Indiana Colony of 1872. Because without Hoosiers, there's no Rose Bowl.
Bar Chelou garnered local and national praise from a small corner of the century-old Pasadena Playhouse building when it opened in early 2023, but this month it will take a bow. Faced with ...
The City of Pasadena was founded in 1874, when members of the Indiana Colony settled along the banks of the Arroyo Seco.In 1924, the Pasadena Historical Society began to collect information about the area's history, with one filing cabinet of material collected by volunteers.