Title supplied by cataloger. Glendora was founded on April 1, 1887 by George D. Whitcomb and was officially incorporated as a City in 1911. In the mid-1930s, nearly all of the city's 4,500 acres of land were cultivated for citrus fruit; by the late 1950s agriculture had given way to large-scale residential development. As of 2006, population of the city known as the "Pride of the Foothills" was estimated at 51,608. Postcard offering a glimpse of Rancho Los Alisos, located in Glendora. In 1905, Judge Charles Silent, an influential member of Glendora's Board of Trade, purchased 100 acres on the northwest corner of Sierra Madre and Grand avenues. In 1908, he hired the Greene Brothers, Charles and Henry, well-known architects of the Arts & Crafts Era, to design and build Rancho Los Alisos to serve as his country home. The judge, living out the rest of his years at his beloved ranch experimenting with his life-long passion of horticulture, transformed one of the hillsides into a beautiful park with palms and other exotic trees, and opened it to the public for Sunday strolls or other activities. Judge Silent passed away in 1919.
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