Glendora (California)

Glendora
	Glendora
	Glendora
Basic data
Foundation :	1887
State :	United States
State :	California
County :	Los Angeles County
Coordinates :	34 ° 8 ′ N , 117 ° 51 ′ W Coordinates: 34 ° 8 ′ N , 117 ° 51 ′ W
Time zone :	Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 )
Residents :	52.002 (as of: 2018)
Population density :	1,048.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	49.91 km 2 (approx. 19 mi 2 ) of; which 49.58 km 2 (approx. 19 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	236 m
Postcodes :	91740, 91741
Area code :	+1 626
FIPS :	06-30014
GNIS ID :	1652713
Website :	www.ci.glendora.ca.us
Mayor :	Karen Davis

Glendora is a city in Los Angeles County in the US state of California , United States , with 52,002 inhabitants (as of 2018). The urban area has a size of 49.9 km². The city was founded on April 1, 1887 by George Whitcomb , who came from Illinois in 1885 . The city is on the famous Route 66 .

Surname

The name is a trunk word from Glen for valley and the ending of the first name of the wife of the founder George D. Whitcomb Leadora .

Glendora is also called the " Pride of the Foothills ".

location

Glendora is east of Azusa , north of Covina , and west of San Dimas . It lies at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains to the north. The California State Route 210 runs through the city. The proximity to the mountains leads to the occasional appearance of pumas and black bears in the urban area.

Glendora is located in the earthquake zone of the Sierra-Madre- rejection , which belongs to the zone San Gabriel Fault leads at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains along. The last major quake was 8,000 years ago, but the fault can produce earthquakes up to magnitude 7.5 on the Richter scale . It is mapped for Glendora under Citrus College.

population

According to the 2000 census, Glendora had 50,177 people. 67.2% of the population are white, followed by 22.7% Latinos . Mexico (16.3%) was most frequently named as the country of origin , followed by Germany (11.3%). 14.7% of the population were born outside of the United States . The median income per household per year was $ 81,336. 73.5% of the residents lived in their own property.

history

The area of today's Glendora was the settlement area of the Tongva . The Tongva settlement Momwahomomutngna was in Glendora or San Dimas . Established in 1876, the Fairmount Cemetery Protestant cemetery was built on an Indian burial site.

During the colonial period, the area of Glendoras belonged to the Mission of San Gabriel. Later it was slammed by the Mexican government of the Rancho Azuza , from which the neighboring Azusa derives its name. In 1874, the two former soldiers of the Southern Army, John Bender and William Bryant Cullen, were the first to settle .

Map of Alosta (in the foreground) and Glendora from 1888, shortly after Glendora was founded.

In 1885 George D. Whitcomb, the founder of Glendora, acquired 200 acres of land. He convinced the Santa Fe Railroad to run their railroad from Pasadena to San Bernardino near his country. Whitcomb divided his land into parcels and built roads. He named streets in north-south direction after states and places in which he had lived or with which he had a relationship. Streets running east-west were named after members of his family. On April 1, 1887, a public auction for the sale of the parcels was held. 291 lots were sold that day and Glendora began to exist as a place. The agricultural place struggled with water problems until the cultivation of citrus fruits spread. In 1896 a packing station for oranges and lemons was built. Glendora was temporarily the location of the world's largest packaging station for citrus fruits.

From 1902 Glendora was connected to the telephone network. In 1907 the city became the terminus of a line on the Pacific Electric Railway leading to Los Angeles . In 1908 and 1909 the connection to electricity and gas lines followed.

Glendora 1920.

Glendora was officially promoted to town on November 13, 1911.

In 1933 Orton Engelhart invented the impulse sprinkler . Glendora is the headquarters of Rain Bird Sprinklers .

In 1951 the service on the line of the Pacific Electric Railway leading to Glendora was discontinued.

In early 1969, southern California experienced exceptionally heavy rainfall. At Glendora, this triggered a mud and rubble avalanche of one million cubic meters in mass, which destroyed around 200 houses and killed dozens of people. After the 1969 disaster, four basins were built in Glendora to prevent it from happening again.

education

Schools and College

Glendora High School.

Glendora has its own school district ( Glendora Unified School District ). There are five public elementary schools, two public middle schools , and the public Glendora High School . The high school maintains an exchange program with the Christian-von-Dohm-Gymnasium in Goslar ( Lower Saxony ). The Glendora High School sports team is the Glendore Tartans .

There are numerous private schools with different sponsorships in and around Glendora.

The Citrus College as a so-called community college has its campus in Glendora. Founded in 1915, Citrus College was the first community college in Los Angeles County and one of the first in California .

museum

The Glendora Historical Society maintains a history museum . The collection is eclectic and represents the period from 1800 to the beginning of the 20th century.

Library

Glendora Public Library.

The City of Glendora maintains a public library. The library was founded in 1912 and the current library building was occupied in 1972. The library contains around 140,000 volumes.

traffic

Private transport

The Foothill Freeway in Glenora.

Glendora is on California State Route 210, which traverses the metropolitan area in a west-east direction . Also known as the Foothill Freeway, it changes name in the city to Interstate Route 210 . In Glendora, the southbound California State Route 57 branches off the Foothill Freeway.

Parallel to the Foothill Freeway , the historic Route 66 runs through Glendora a little further north .

Transportation

Glendora is part of the Foothill Transit bus routes .

Downtown Los Angeles can currently be reached via the Gold Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail via the terminus APU / Citrus College in the area of neighboring Azusa . The City of Glendora operates a shuttle service to the APU / Citrus College and Downtown Azusa stops . However, an extension of the Gold Line is planned . Main construction work is scheduled to begin in 2020 and the project is expected to be completed in 2026. There will be stops in Glendora, San Dimas , La Verne , Pomona , Claremont and Montclair . In November 2018, however, it became known that the construction was becoming more expensive and possibly delayed , among other things because of the tariffs imposed by the Donald Trump government .

religion

In 2004 the Free Church Worldwide Church of God moved its headquarters from Pasadena to Glendora.

Attractions

Ruble Castle 2008

Rubel Castel is a castle-like facility built by school bus driver Michael Clarke Rubel from recycled found objects and concrete . The core of the facility was a citrus farm packing house. The complex was built by Rubel between 1959 and 1986 without any previous architectural training. The facility is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Protection was granted on the one hand because the packing house was a final example of the citrus industry that was typical of the area in the past. On the other hand, the Rubel Castle Historic District is recognized as an expression of folk art . The registration took place in 2013. In the Atlas Obscura , however, Rubel Castle is referred to as " A giant castle of junk ". Rubel Castle is now owned by the Glendora Historic Society , which offers regular tours.
Route 66 Glendora was the first California parish to officially rename its section of Route 66 to Route 66 . The street still shows remnants of this past, such as the Art Deco building of a former gas station, the neon advertising sign of the Golden Spur Restaurant , some restaurants, hotels and motels from the 1950s .