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Real Estate Appraisers and Appraisals In
Los Angeles County, City of Baldwin Park
| Baldwin Park began as
part of cattle grazing land belonging to the San Gabriel Mission. It eventually
became part of the Rancho Azusa de Dalton and the Rancho La Puente properties.
The community became known as Vineland in 1880. By 1906 it changed to Baldwin
Park. It was named after Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin. In 1956 Baldwin Park
became the 47th incorporated city in the State of California. The city has one
of the lowest crime rates per capita in the general Los Angeles region.
Currently the city is pushing to revitalize its economic base. There are six
active Project Redevelopment Areas located in strategic areas of the city.
Projects within these redevelopment areas are as diverse, including
high-quality senior housing, Home Depot, Starbucks, Harley Davidson, a transit
oriented district (TOD) near the Metrolink Train Station and various other
thriving businesses. Baldwin Park is home to the first In-N-Out burger stand,
the first drive-thru in California, which closed in 2004 and has been replaced
with a new one. The In-N-Out museum and company store opened in 2006 on Francisquito
Avenue. As of September 1882, the first schoolhouse was built on the southeast
corner of North Maine and Los Angeles Avenues in 1884. It contained two rows of
double seats, a central aisle leading to the teacher's desk, and a heating
stove at the north end. Mr. Frazier was the first teacher. In April 1888, The
Vineland School District was established according to county records. In summer
2005, Save Our State, an anti-illegal immigration group based in Ventura,
launched a series of protests against Danzas Indigenas, an art installation at
the Baldwin Park Metrolink station designed for the MTA in 1993 by artist Judy
Baca. The monument bears several engraved statements whose origins are not
attributed. At issue was one particular inscription--It was better before they
came--that Save Our State claimed was directed against Caucasians. In fact,
according to Baca, that sentence was uttered by a white Baldwin Park resident
in the 1950s; he was lamenting the influx of persons of Mexican ancestry into
the San Gabriel Valley following World War II. Save Our State's founder Joseph
Turner publicly vowed to continue the protests, which drew enormous numbers of
counter-protesters and required considerable expenditures on crowd control and
riot police, until Baldwin Park's city treasury was sufficiently depleted as to
force it to remove the art installation. As of August 2006, the monument still
stands and the protests have ceased. |
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