      
  |
| |
Azusa residents have a strong sense of community and family and are proud of the pioneering spirit of generations that preceded them.
The many legends and stories known to Azusa began hundreds of years ago, with its first inhabitants, the Asuska Indians, a branch of the Shoshone nation, known locally today as Gabrielena. After becoming a Mexican land grant, Azusa was sold to Englishman Henry Dalton who, in 1867, planted oranges he brought from Mexico on his Rancho Azusa. In 1902, banker Jonathan Sayre Slauson took title to Dalton’s holdings renaming it Foot-Hill Ranch. Eventually, citrus groves blossomed into the Azusa Foothill Citrus Company, a regional producer of oranges that put Azusa on the map.
In 1956, The Azusa Foothill Citrus Company closed a chapter of the citrus industry in the San Gabriel Valley with its sale to The Monrovia Nursery Company. Fortunately, the reverence for planting and cultivation would continue to play an enormous role in Azusa’s economy and history to this day.
Azusa, known to the elite and socialites of the day because of wealthy entrepreneurs and investors who lived there, was also on the map for President William Howard Taft, who, in 1909, on a train whistle-stop at Palm Drive, greeted more than 1,000 Azusa, Covina, and Glendora students.
Also adding to the rich historical texture of Azusa is Route 66. Commissioned in 1926, it crossed 8 states and 3 time zones stretching around 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, California. Eventually decommissioned in 1985 and replaced by interstate highways, Route 66, now Foothill Blvd. in Azusa, crosses Citrus Avenue and curves along Alosta Avenue on the perimeter of the Rosedale community.
|
|
|
|
Copyright © Azusa Land Partners, LLC. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy Site Design