Back to Sphinx Ranch Abbot Kinney, L.J. Rose, Fox family, Eaton Canyon Meadow cabins, Captain Henninger
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Abbot Kinney moves to where the old Sierra Madre Villa Hotel stood and built Kinneloa above it in 1882. His mother was a Cogswell.
Leonard J. Rose, In 1861, a small wine country emerged (current east Pasadena) when Bavarian entrepreneur L.J. Rose purchased and set up his 1,950-acre Sunny Slope Ranch, from part of the western portion of Rancho Santa Anita. Rose established the small township of Lamanda Park on his ranch around 1880, today an existing neighborhood within the city of Pasadena. A number of wineries opened in Lamanda Park on Sunny Slope Ranch operating from 1865 to 1923, Prohibition ending the era of wineries in the San Gabriel Valley. Rose subdivided part of his land in 1887 and sold his ranch to an English syndicate, the entire estate turned into vineyards to make wine and brandy for the UK market. All that remains of the Winery Era are grape-inspired street names like: Del Vina, Vine, Vinedo, Vineyard, Mataro and Muscatel.
Fox ridge, Rockwood home. Home of Charles J. Fox family, built in 1914. Originally called Rockwood, the home was later renamed Fox Ridge. In 1950, daughter Mary Beatrice Fox sold the canyon portion of the property to Los Angeles County. Today it is part of Eaton Canyon Nature Center.
Eaton Canyon Meadow cabins, Ruiz?
Captain Henninger and the experimental forest
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