Lynwood is a 4.9 square mile city, located in the southern portion of the Los Angeles Basin, in Los Angeles County. The families who first came to the Lynwood territory arrived in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In 1902, C.H. Sessions acquired the title to approximately 400 acres of land that had once belonged to Don Antonio Lugo; he established "the Lynwood Diary and Creamery", named after his wife's maiden, Miss Lynne Wood. In 1913, 800 acres were opened up for 'suburban' home sites, and just 8 short years later, on July 16, 1921, voters approved incorporation of the city. A major earthquake on March 10, 1933 - known as the Long Beach Earthquake, caused major damage in Lynwood, with numerous buildings collapsing. Through the years, Lynwood has transformed itself from a colonial settlement, to a small farming town, to finally becoming a mostly working-class suburb in Los Angeles County, with the population growing by leaps and bounds. The statistics are as follows: 1921 (786 residents); 1930 (1,326 residents); 1940 (10,986 residents); 1960 (31,614 residents); 1988 (55,071 residents); 2000 (69,845 residents); 2007 (72,984 residents), and today, the current population stands at approximately 73,212. View of a farmhouse located in Lynwood. Several people can be seen standing next to a large tree, and a few more sit inside horse-drawn carriages. Photograph dated: June 6, 1955.
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