35^ aiSi*ORY OF t>ASADaNA. 



Hudson Avenue.— Opened by Wetherby and Kayser, in 1886, and 

 named by Mr. Wetherby from the Hudson river, the scene of his boyhood 

 days. 



Herkimer Street. — Opened by S. D. Bryant, first through his own land 

 on Los Robles Avenue, then he had to buy enough of a strip to extend it 

 through to Moline Avenue, rather than have it stand as a mere court. He 

 named it from Herkimer county. New York, his native place. 



Holliston Ave7iue. — First opened in 1887 by H. R. Case, and named 

 from Holliston, Mass., his old home. 



Hill Street. — Opened in 1886 by a syndicate, and named after E. R. 

 Hull. 



Hurlbiit Street. — Named after E. F. Hurlbut. It stops at the stone 

 wall which encloses the east side of his fine home place. It was first called 

 " Terrace Avenue," and is so named on some old maps ; but that name had 

 no sense or fitness in that locality, and was changed to Hurlbut. 



Ipswich Street. — Opened in 1885, by Henry A. Wallis, who was born at 

 Ipswich, Mass., in a house that was erected there in 1630, and is still 

 standing. 



Kansas Street. — Opened first by Martin MuUins, through the Mul- 

 lins tract, and named for the State he came from. This tract was the first 

 regularly platted and recorded block of village lots ever made in Pasadena, 

 the small lots previously sold having been described by metes and bounds. 

 Mr. Mullins had bought from John S. Mills seven acres, "being the s ^ of 

 lot 6 in Berry & Elliott's subdivision in the subdivided lands of the San 

 Gabriel Orange Grove Association, in the Rancho San Pasqual, Los Angeles 

 county, California — 47 lots." Plat recorded November 24, 1883 — only six 

 days ahead of Wesley Bunnell's plat of his lots on Union street and Little 

 avenue. The first dwelling house on Kansas street was built by Dr. H. A. 

 Reid, at corner of Pasadena Avenue and Kansas street, early in 1884. Feb- 

 ruary 19, 1887, an attempt was made to change the name to Concord street, 

 but was defeated. But in 1894 the city council changed the name to Green 

 street, in deference to Col. G. G. Green and his great hotel. 



Kensirigton Place. — Opened by W. U. Masters, and named by the lady 

 members of his family, after Kensington, England (London). 



Kirkwood Avenue. — Named after ex-Gov. Samuel Kirkwood of Iowa. 

 He served also as United States senator ; and as secretary of the Interior 

 in President Garfield's cabinet. After all these high honors he settled down 

 quietly at his family home in the outskirts of Iowa City ; and just for a 

 joke his neighbors elected him road overseer. He took the office, and made 

 the jokers work, so that at the end of the year the township had better 

 roads than it ever knew before. 



Lake Avenue. — This was originally called Lake Vineyard Avenue, 

 laid out by Hon. B. D. Wilson and named after his Lake Vineyard 



