Eagle Rock

Before 1906, the Eagle Rock area was ranchland and truck farms.  Then the Los Angeles Railway arrived, making suburban development possible.  The area grew enough by 1911 to be incorporated as the City of Eagle Rock.  But in 1923, the citizens of Eagle Rock voted to become part of the City of Los Angeles.  They wanted access to an adequate water supply (isn’t it always about the water??) and an upgraded school system.  This growing community was just the place to site an “Old Peoples Home.”

Sources:

“Eagle Rock,” by Eric H. Warren, Images of America series, 200

“Solheim Lutheran Home, Its Life and Times, 1923-1996” by Elizabeth Batchelder and Joyce Dohlin, 1996