DIVISION Two — COLONIAL. II 3 



division of lands was made by Hon. B. D. Wilson in 1876, because by that 

 time the Orange Grove Association had only two or three small lots left for 

 sale, so rapidly had its lands been taken up and improved. This new 

 colony tract comprised about 2,500 acres of land, eastward, with Fair Oaks 

 Avenue as the line of separation from the original plat ; and it was named 

 the " Ivake Vineyard I^and and Water Company," from the name of Mr. 

 Wilson's home place, he being himselt the "Company," with his son-in- 

 law, J. DeBarth Shorb, as general manager. Wilson and Griffin had sold 

 the Grogan tract in 1868, and Wilson now repurchased a portion of it for 

 his new colony scheme, so that the plat extended eastward a few rods beyond 

 Wilson Avenue to what is now Bandini Avenue. This colony tract was laid 

 out in five and ten acre lots, and water to be piped to each lot from a reser- 

 voir at the end of the original ' ' Wilson Ditch ' ' before described as made by 

 Judge Baton in 1867, for Wilson and Griffin. 



Thomas Banbury was here from Canada without his family. He was 

 working for B. D. Wilson on the San Pasqual ranch, and knew of his plan 

 for making a new subdivision of colony lands, so he bargained for a ten 

 acre lot and staked it off himself before any survey had been made. This 

 was in December, 1875. Mr. Banbury planted a patch of potatoes on his 

 lot, just about where the Pasadena Manufacturing Co. 's big planing mill is 

 now located, and on December 27 started back east to bring his family. His 

 was the first lot ever taken in the Lake Vineyard Colony tract. On his 

 return he took three more ten-acre lots, making a 40-acre block extending 

 from Fair Oaks Avenue to Marengo Avenue. In 1877 he sold the south 20 

 acres of his land to W O. Swan, Sr., which was the first sale from the Lake 

 Vineyard Tract made to second parties. Glendale street now runs through 

 this 20, and the Santa Fe freight depot stands upon it. 



These new colony lands, with water, were held at $75 per acre, in small 

 lots, in 1876. But L. D. Hollingsworth, just arrived from Iowa, sought 

 better terms, on condition that he would induce a number of Iowa families 

 to come and settle here and so give the newly opened lands a good start for 

 fettlement and sale. Upon this, Mr. Wilson agreed that if he and his 

 friends would take one hundred acres at once they might have it at $55 per 

 acre. Then Mr. Hollingsworth made up a syndicate of buyers, as follows : 



L. D. Hollingsworth [in the family] - - - 50 acres. 



Charles Legge - - - - - - - 20 '" 



Solomon Dunton (by his son-in-law, Col. J. Banbury) 10 " 

 Col. Jabez Banbury - - - - - - 5 " 



S. Washburn - - 5 " 



This made 90 acres [the other ten being guaranteed], and was the 

 original purchase and start for the new colony except T. Banbury's lot. 

 But Mr. Hollingsworth had obtained a special concession that any of his 

 Iowa friends who should come here to settle within a year should have land 



