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qual " ranch, with some fractional government lots. It was originally owned 

 or worked as private land by a Frenchman named Flores — hence was called 

 the Flores place. In 1858 a Mr. Hutchinson bought it and went to raising 

 strawberries, for which he soon built up a good paying demand. In 1867 

 Mr. S. Richardson, a native of New Hampshire, bought an interest in the 

 place, ultimately securing the whole of it, and resides there yet. In order to 

 retain the old name by which it was known 25 or 30 years ago, he calls it 

 " L,as Flores," the flowers, or place of flowers. This tract lies next east of 

 the lyos Robles or Stoneman place ; and the old ditch by which the Mission 

 Fathers conveyed the waters of lyos Robles canyon [or Mill spring creek] 

 along the bluff to their old stone grist mill, crossed the upper end of this I^as 

 Flores ranch ; and on its land just below the ditch the priests had a garden 

 of very rich soil, easily irrigated from the ditch. Mr. Richardson himself 

 filled up parts of the old mill ditch; and some portions of it are discernible there 

 yet, especially on the east side of the road that leads down Oak Knoll can- 

 yon between the Oak Knoll and Allendale tracts, nearly at the foot of the 

 hill. There is a row of Eucalyptus trees growing along where the old ditch 

 was, on the east bank of the roadway ; and a few rods below this the road 

 crosses Mill spring creek or Willow^dale creek, which is formed by the junc- 

 tion a little way above of the L,os Robles and Oak Knoll brooks. 



Wii^ivOWDALE was a 17-acre lot at the northwest corner of the Richard- 

 son place on Mill spring creek, owned and named by Capt. J. Elwood Ellis, 

 and as " Willowdale " it is mentioned in early Pasadena history. It was later 

 owned and occupied by the widow of Will J. Bennett of Pasadena, daughter 

 of Mr. Richardson, but is now comprised in the Richardson farm. A dense 

 copse or jungle of willows growing along the creek on the place gave it its 

 name of " Willowdale." [See article on " Oak Knoll canyon."] 



El Moeino (the Mill).— This is the historic Spanish name of the 

 ranch now owned by E. E- May berry, and from which Pasadena's Moline 

 Avenue was named. It was originally El Molino Avenue, but has been 

 anglicized into the shorter and easier form of Moline, whence many people 

 erroneously think the name was taken from the great manufacturing city of 

 Moline on the Mississippi river, in Illinois. See articles on "The Old 

 Mill," and " The Eake," for further history of this tract. 



Lake Vineyard Ranch. — This is the old home place of Hon. B. D. 

 Wilson, who gave it this name from the old Mission lake which was partly 

 on his place, and also the extensive vineyards which he himself planted, in 

 addition to what had been planted there during the rule of the Padres. 

 Mr. Wilson's widow still resides here. This was the so-called " Cuati " 

 grant, made by Mexico in 1830, and confirmed by the U. S. commissioners 

 in 1859 to Victoria Reid, the Indian wife of the erudite Scotchman, Hugo 

 Reid. [See page 17.] Mr. Wilson bought it from Mrs. Reid. Lake Ave- 



