It may be hard to imagine but entire towns have vanished from the Southland. In the 1880s, things were a lot more ephemeral. There were real estate developments of Kenilworth. Studebaker. Nadeau. Gallatin. Clearwater. However there were some successful cities, such as Burbank, Inglewood, Glendale
The street grid of Morocco once stretched across the same gilded real estate occupied today by Beverly Hills. The ruins of a town named Minneapolis lie beneath Atwater Village. The independent city of Tropico melded with Glendale.
Many of these settlements were never more than paper towns, existing only in the drawers of the county recorder’s office. Between 1884 and 1888, developers platted more than 100 towns in Los Angeles County — some on the fringes of established cities like Los Angeles and Pasadena, others on the open plains of former ranchos. Lots changed hands and fortunes were made, but few of the towns actually made an imprint on the landscape by the time boom turned to bust.
This article was cited from the original KCET one below.
https://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/history/la-as-subject/the-lost-towns-of-los-angeles-county.html
Ashley Gossman
Realtor
323-308-8804
CalBre# 01921685
