When the Marathon Race of the 1932 Olympics came through Inglewood, the City's future as the 'City of Champions' began. Charles Lindbergh flew the first passenger plane in with Will Rogers as a passenger and National Air Races were initiated in 1928 with Lindbergh as one of the flyers. The Air Age began in 1927 when the Andrew Bennett Ranch was leased by Los Angeles and converted into Mines Field (later LAX). Chapman brought the animals here from the Peruvian Andes. After 1923, Inglewood became the Chinchilla Capital of the world when M.F. From 1920 to 1925, Inglewood was the fastest growing city in the United States. People came to see the damage and stayed because of the wonderful climate. Inglewood Park Cemetery was developed and the street car line brought both coffins and mourners.įebruInglewood, with a booming 1,200 population, was incorporated as a city, but it was the earthquake of 1920 that put it on the map.

In 1905, Inglewood recovered from a nationwide financial crash after establishing a Poultry Colony in the present North Inglewood. Rollins was sworn in as deputy sheriff after the town's ornamental cannon had been blown to bits in a prank. Mitchell was appointed deputy county clerk and a.m. Town politics also began in 1888 when F.B.

The new town of 300 residents opened the first day of school, May 21, of that same year, enrolling 33 children in a new livery stable until the school building could be erected. Inglewood was the first settlement to be carved out of the 25,000 acre Centinela Ranch in 1888 shortly after a railroad station had been built in the area.

There he built a vast empire through dry farming, shipping millions of bushels of barley from his wharf at Playa del Rey. Influenced by Charles Nordhoff's 'California for Health, Pleasure and Residence: A Book for Travelers and Settlers,' Freeman settled in Cantilena Ranch, where he felt the cool sea breeze would benefit his wife's poor health. After several additions and owners, two land grants-Rancho Agape de Cantilena and Rancho Causal Armando were bought by Sir Robert Burnett of Scotland, leased by and later sold to Daniel Freeman from Canada. Inglewood's rich history begins with the Centinela Adobe, situated on Rancho Agape de la Centinela, which was built in 1834 by Ignacio Machado, son of one of the soldiers protecting the first settlers of Los Angeles on their way from Mexico.

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