In 1901 a pair of developers by the name of A.L. Burbank and E.V. Baker came to control a 100-acre tract of land called Sunrise Tract that had once belonged to the prosperous Lugo Family. Burbank and Baker subdivided the land and changed the name of the development to La Park. In 1902 they enticed Henry Huntington to extend a line of his Pacific Electric Railway to and through their land and granted Huntington a right-of-way for his railway along what is now Randolph Street; they re-named their development Huntington Park. On August 20, 1906 the vote to incorporate Huntington Park as its own city passed 77 to 17. Eleven days later, on September 1, 1906, a population of 526 residents was officially established and recognized as The City of Huntington Park. City officials of Huntington Park, pictured clockwise from the upper middle are: N.O. Fleming, President of Board; W.H. Boss, City Treasurer; F.W. Lake, City Attorney; Geo. Sillers, Trustee; J.V. Scofield, Trustee; W.T. Salvin, Trustee; F.A. McClung, Trustee; J.H. Pinkham, City Marshall; and H.H. Hunter, City clerk. In the middle of the photo is the Huntington Park City Hall building; a sign above the entrance reads, "Erected 1914".
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