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and he commemorated that bit of family history by naming the new street 

 after the city of Winona, Minn., because he liked that Indian name. 



Worcester Avenue. — Opened by Ed. L,. Karris, in 1886. Mrs. Cordelia 

 A. Boynton and Miss K. L. Ogden owned land needed for the opening, and 

 Mr. Farris gave them the privilege of naming the new street ; and accord- 

 ingly the name of Mrs. Boynton's birthplace, Worcester, Mass., was de- 

 cided upon. An effort was made to. get it opened clear through to Walnut 

 street ; but the school directors refused to let a public street run so close to 

 the Lincoln school-house as would be necessary, and also would not let that 

 school's playground be lessened or marred even by a ten-foot driveway 

 across it. Then Mrs. Boynton and Miss Ogden opened Ramona street to 

 give the north end of their new avenue an outlet to Marengo Avenue. 



Yolo Avenue. — Opened by the Patten brothers in 1888, and named by 

 Engineer Piper, who surveyed it, because he came from Yolo county, Cali- 

 fornia. The word means "region of tules" or rushes, and is from the 



ancient Aztec language. 



STREET ALTITUDES. 



While Surveyor J. M. Willard was locating the street car line along 

 Colorado street, in 1886, he recorded the altitude above sea level at all the 

 principal street crossings, as follows : 



PLACE. FEET. 



Fair Oaks Avenue at Colorado street crossing 997.00 



Marengo Avenue at Colorado street crossing 1,016.13 



Euclid Avenue at Colorado street crossing i ,005 . 6 1 



Los Robles Avenue at Colorado street crossing 1,002.08 



Moline Avenue at Colorado street crossing 980. 93 



Lake Avenue at Colorado street crossing 969. 72 



Wilson Avenue at Colorado street crossing 964. 7 1 



Hill Avenue at Colorado street crossing 950-47 



Santa Fe elevations are : 



Lincolu Park 635 Raymond 748 Los Robles Avenue 871 



South Pasadena 674 Pasadena 829 Olivewood 850 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Mountain Peaks, Canyons, Water Falls, Hills, and other Natural Objects ; with their 

 several Names, and when, why and by whom these Names were given. 

 The Old Mill; the Mission Lake [or Wilson's lake]; etc. 



MOUNTAIN PEAKS OF PASADENALAND. 



Our local mountain peaks vary very much in appearance as viewed from 

 different standpoints in the 4X 7 miles extent of Pasadena residences, from the 

 Arroyo bluff to Santa Anita Avenue, and from Lincoln Park to Giddings 

 Heights ; hence I have taken the corner of Colorado street and Marengo Ave- 



