Long Beach's Los Cerritos

Evolving from a 27,000-acre rancho, to a colony of farmers, and then to a neighborhood subdivision, Long Beach�s Los Cerritos is the story of a fiercely independent community established prior to William Willmore�s vision of a city of Long Beach took hold. Life centered around the historic Rancho Los Cerritos throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries as John Temple�s cattle ranching was replaced by Jotham Bixby�s sheep ranching and tenant farming operations. Jotham Bixby sold off land fo...