View of the temporary location of St. Dominic Catholic Church, when it was housed in a tent. In the spring of 1921, two lots were purchased on Merton Ave. in Eagle Rock and the tents were erected on this property in the very heart of the valley. On October 16, 1921 Fr. Francis Driscoll, O.P., who was St. Dominic's first Pastor, offered the first mass in this makeshift place of worship. Eagle Rock is a neighborhood in northeastern Los Angeles that derives its name from a massive boulder at the district's northern edge, which contains an indentation that casts a vaguely bird-shaped shadow on the rock at certain times of day. In 1906 Eagle Rock became an independent city and was incorporated in 1911 with a population of approximately 600; in 1920, population had grown to 2,250. Just one year later, in 1921, this figure had leaped to 3,800, and by 2005, the U.S. census estimated the population at approximately 27,875.
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