Covina

Covina

Covina

Covina

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Overview

Covina began as a coffee plantation carved out of Rancho La Puente, which John Rowland had purchased from California's Mexican government. Rowland later shared the land with his friend and partner William Workman, and after Rowland's death, his widow, Charlotte, sold 5,500 acres to Julian and Antonio Badillo, on which they attempted unsuccessfully to grow coffee. Joseph Swift Phillips purchased 2,000 acres of the Badillo land, subdivided the tract, and laid out Covina's town site. Covina came to grow, process, and ship eight percent of California's citrus, transforming into a farming community that was neither rural nor urban. Residents established cultural, social, and civic organizations, founded a scientific study group and a literary society, and even built an opera house.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738555553
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 10/03/2007
Series: Images of America Series
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 665,548
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

This rare collection of previously unpublished photographs is drawn from various public and private collections in the area. Author Barbara Ann Hall, Ph.D., is curator of The Vintage Years, Covina before 1950, a photograph exhibition in Covina City Hall. She was senior author of Mt. San Antonio College, the First Fifty Years, and she created the traveling exhibition Our Valley before 1949.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     6
Introduction     7
The Predecessors before 1886     9
Early Citrus, Railroad Arrives     19
Electricity, Automobiles, Telephones, Incorporation     37
Golden Years of Citrus     65
Between the Wars     87
The Great Change     115
Bibliography     126
Epilogue: Maintaining the Legacy     127
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