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HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



nue as a convenient central point from which to designate the different peaks 

 by name. But the view would be nearly the same from the Presbyterian 

 church, the Wilson High School, the Throop Polytechnic Institute, the Hotel 

 Green, etc. 



Mount Harvard. — lyooking north-by-east from our chosen standpoint, 

 the most striking object toward the mountain top is a prominent detached 

 spur forming a tangent ridge by itself, with its crest running north and 

 south and a pretty well defined gable-end facing southward. During the 

 days of Spanish and Mexican rule this promontory was called El Picacho, 

 "the peak." As seen from Anaheim or Los Nietos, or any of that old- 

 settled southeasterly region, only its end came into view, and it seemed 

 verily "The Peak"; and it was so nearly due north that it served the 



GODFATHERS AT CHRISTENING OF MOUNT HARVARD, APRIL 7, 1892. 



President Klliot of Harvard College ; Prof. T. S. C. Lowe of Mount Lowe fame ; Prof. Will S. Monroe, city 

 .superintendent of Pasadena .schools ; Prof. Winship of Bo.ston ; Walter Raymond of Raymond hotel ; 

 Judge B. S. Eaton ; H. W. Magee, Esq ; Chas. A. flardner, editor Pasadena Daily Star: W. S. Gilniore 

 of I<os Angeles Daily Times staff; Clarence S. Martin of Martin's camp ; Mr. Severance. 



Spanish workmen a noon-mark by the sun. Byron O. Clark relates that 

 when Manuel E. Garfias, the first European child ever born in Pasadena- 

 land, worked for him at Anaheim in 1870, he always looked at this " Peak " 

 to see when it was dinner time. The first name that I heard it called by 

 (winter of 1883-4) was "The Hogback." From Pasadena this promontory 

 appears to be the highest part of the mountain, but Judge Eaton says it is 

 250 feet lower than Wilson's peak. I called it South Gable Promontory, a 

 name which explains itself at sight. On April 7, 1892, President Elliot of 

 Harvard University accompanied a party up the Toll Road to visit the site 

 where the Harvard photographing telescope had done its special work. 



