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HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



Duarte — 1895. I" 1877 Rubio sold his claim to one Dr. Hall, who made 

 it his home and died there in 1879, In 1881 Mrs. Hall, the widow, sold her 

 little farm and water rights to F. J. Woodbury, who in Dec, 1883, joined his 

 brother John in buying the land where Altadena now stands and tunneling 

 and piping water from this canyon down through it, for irrigation and 

 domestic purposes. After sundry changes and additional water develop- 

 ments, this canyon property was in 1891 acquired by the present Mount 

 I,owe Railway Company, who have further cleared and improved the farm, 

 utilized the water, built the electric railroad into the canyon, built Rubio 



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 MOSS GROTTO FALLS, IN RUBIO GLEN. 



PaviHon,* made nine waterfalls beyond this accessible by footways, built 



*One day in 1893 a company of nuns visited Rubio pavilion, and among the many pictures there they 

 were shown one of Father Gonzalez Rubio of the San Jose Mission, from 1833 to 1840, and they were 

 delighted in at once associating his name with this wonderful place. But he was never here. 



