no HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



Fair Oaks Avenue to Arroyo Drive, and from Colorado street south to Ele- 

 vado Drive. 



Col. J. Banbury, sixty acres. From Fair Oaks Avenue to Arroyo 

 Drive, and from Elevado to Waverly Drive. He built the third house in 

 the settlement — the one where Mrs. I. M. Hill now resides, on Orange 

 Grove Avenue — 1894. 



N. R. Gibson, 60 acres. From Fair Oaks to Arroyo, and from Wav- 

 erly to Palmetto street. (The James Smith tract.) 



Thomas F. Croft, 60 acres. P'rom Fair Oaks to Arroyo, and from 

 Palmetto to California street. The first plow that ever turned a sod in Pasa- 

 dena was run by Mr. Croft on his land, along where the ist Congregational 

 church and Rev. D. D. Hill's residence now stand— 1894. "^^^ Garfield 

 school is also on the Croft farm. 



W. T. C1.APP, 60 acres. From Fair Oaks to Arroyo, and from Cali- 

 fornia to Congress street. The first colony school house and the first church 

 (Presbyterian) were erected on this body of land. 



H. J. Holmes, per W. T. Clapp, 60 acres. From Fair Oaks to Ar- 

 royo, on each side of Bradford street and Markham street. Gov. Mark- 

 ham's residence, fronting east on Pasadena Avenue, is on this selection. 



Henry G. Bennett, 60 acres. From Fair Oaks to Arroyo on each 

 side of Bellefontaine street. The Catholic church now stands on this land. 



J. M. Matthews, per Thos. F. Croft, 60 acres. From Fair Oaks to 

 Arroyo Drive, next south of Mr. Bennett's choice. On this farm are now 

 located the fine residences of E. F. Hurlbut, Prof. T. S. C. Lowe, and Mrs. 

 Col. Baker. 



B. S. Eaton, 60 acres. His present home place named "Hillcrest," 

 on the south Pasadena bluff ; also from Fair Oaks to Orange Grove Avenue, 

 and on down the west bluff, next north of the Porter & Green selection 

 which lay along the north side of Columbia street. " Grace Hill " is on 

 Judge Eaton's selection. 



Porter «& Green, 120 acres. From Fair Oaks to Arroyo Drive on 

 north side of Columbia street ; and also on .south side of same street to 

 Sylvan Drive — Columbia Hill being then reserved for school, church and 

 reservoir sites. 



Ward Leavitt, per D. M. Berry, 60 acres. vSouth Pasadena. 



Calvin Fletcher, 180 acres. South Pasadena. 112;^ acres of his 

 lands are marked "'May hew " on the original colony map. 



The colony map was prepared by N. R. Gibson, engineer, and was 

 23x52 inches in size. A photograph copy of it was made for record, and 

 was recorded June 25, 1874, in Book 2, pages 556 to 559 of Miscellaneous 

 Records of Los Angeles county. J. W. Gillette, county recorder. 



The amount of land bought was 3,933/3 acres, for $25,000. About 

 1,400 acres which lay detached, up toward the mountains, was donated to 



