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SANTA ANITA RANCHO 





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Cutting Oats in May. 



EARLY HISTORY 



SANTA ANITA RANCHO was established by the late Elias Jackson 

 Baldwin in 1873. The original Santa Anita tract contained some 8,500 

 acres. Later, other tracts were acquired, including numerous acres sur- 

 rounding the town of Arcadia, in the highlands of Los Angeles County, 

 until the entire ranch, under its present name, contained 54,000 acres. The 

 boundary limits included all the lands lying in the San Gabriel Valley, extending 

 from the Sierra Madre Mountains to the Puente Hills at Whittier, and from a 

 line just west of the present town of Lamanda Park, eastward to the Merced 

 Hills. Here Mr. Baldwin established a home and laid the foundation of what 

 is today one of the greatest ranches in Southern California, if not in the entire 

 West. Orchards were located containing nearly all varieties of semi-tropical 



