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Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, USA Famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the leading robotics and spacecraft design and manufacturing NASA center). Pasadena CA Real Estate is a great value.
Art Center College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, California School of Culinary Arts Pasadena and the Norton Simon Museum of Art. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 133,936, making it the 160th largest city in the United States The California Finance Department estimated the Pasadena population to be 146,166 in 2005. Pasadena is the 6th largest city in Los Angeles County, and the main cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Pasadena CA Real Estate is a great value.
Much of the land that is now Pasadena, Altadena and South Pasadena was a Spanish land grant to Eulalia Perez de Guille, a cook and housekeeper at San Gabriel Mission. The grant was named Rancho San Pascual because it was deeded on Easter Sunday. By the time California became part of the United States in 1848, Manuel Garfias owned Rancho San Pascual, selling parts of it to white settlers entering the area.
In 1873, Dr. Daniel M. Berry of Indiana became interested in the area for the relief it offered him from asthma. He bought a tract of land and brought some of his respiratory patients here, forming the Indiana Colony in 1874 and creating the California Orange and Citrus Growers Association to raise money for his venture.
When the residents of the Indiana Colony wanted to get their own post office, the Postmaster General insisted that they find a more suitable name. Dr. Thomas Elliott proposed several names based on the Minnesota Chippewa Indian words for "Crown of the Valley," "Key of the Valley," "Valley of the Valley," and "Hill of the Valley." All of the phrases ended in pa-sa-de-na (of the valley), and the residents chose this pleasant-sounding name for their community. In 1886, Pasadena became the second incorporated municipality in Southern California, after Los Angeles.
Pasadena became an important stop on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and it experienced a real estate boom the lasted from the 1880s until the Great Depression, a period when many tourist hotels were built and the city became a winter resort for wealthy Easterners.
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