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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D7X_1942-rose-bowl_Pasadena-CA.html
1942 Rose Bowl. . The 1942 Rose Bowl was the 28th Rose Bowl Game. Originally scheduled to be played in the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California, it was moved to Durham, North Carolina, due to the fears of an attack on the West Coast of the Un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EP9_giants-rooted-among-us_Victoria-BC.html
Gaze up into a Giant sequoia. Let your imagination soar. Fully grown, they are the largest living things on the planet. Their ancestors stood among dinosaurs. Today, the Giant sequoia is found naturally in fewer than 100 groves in the Sierra Nevad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EP8_fenyes-estate_Pasadena-CA.html
Built 1905Been Placed on theNational Registerof Historic PlacesBy the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DOJ_bonham-alley_Pasadena-CA.html
Named for Perry P. Bonham, a plumber who occupied 45 West Colorado Boulevard in the Hugus and Bonham Block. Today, the late nineteenth-century masonry buildings are grouped behind a two-story Spanish Colonial facade. Bonham served as a police comm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DOB_mills-place_Pasadena-CA.html
Named for Alexander Fraser Mills, a nurseryman who planted a citrus grove on 7 1/2 acres at the northwest corner of Colorado Boulevard and Fair Oaks Avenue in 1878. Mills Place was originally named "Ward Alley." In 1885, a fire at this site destro…
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Named for Casper T. Hopkins, a major proponent for the establishment of a Public Library in Pasadena. In 1880, he purchased the eighty acre "Olivewood Tract" that fronted Colorado Boulevard between El Molino and Lake Avenues. Hopkins served as Pre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DO8_pacific-alley_Pasadena-CA.html
Named for the Pacific Electric Railway Company owned by Henry E. Huntington. The Pacific Electric System was the largest Electric Railway in the world, covering southern California with over 1,100 miles of track. By 1906, Pasadena was served by th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DO6_electric-alley_Pasadena-CA.html
Named for the Pacific Electric Railway Company. The now-vanished Pacific Alley Intersected Electric Alley at mid-block. Owned by Henry E. Huntingon, the Pacific Electric System was the largest electric railway in the world, covering Southern Calif…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DO2_hayes-alley_Pasadena-CA.html
Named for Orrin Henry Hayes, an early Pasadena Hay and Feed Merchant. His father, W.F. Hayes, opened a family grocery store on South Fair Oaks Avenue in 1881, one of the community's earliest business enterprises.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DO0_kendall-alley_Pasadena-CA.html
Named for Bela Otis Kendall, a well-known businessman in Pasadena. During the boom of 1886, he built the B.O. Kendall Company, located at 35 North Raymond Avenue, into a thriving real estate business. Among the noteworthy buildings erected by the …
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