The population was 37, at the census. Monrovia is the fourth-oldest general-law city in Los Angeles County and the L. Incorporated in , it has grown from a sparse community of orange ranches to a residential community of over 37, Much of what is known of early California is from Crespi's detailed descriptions.
The mission continued after Mexican independence in In , the Mexican Congress initiated secularization of the missions in Alta California , to begin seizure of mission properties for sale to private rancho grantees. Monrovia is made of parts of these two ranchos. In the midth century, most of Rancho Azusa de Duarte was subdivided and sold by Duarte to settle his debts. Some of those parcels became part of the ranch of William N. Monroe , Monrovia's eponym , with the "-via" suffix coming from West African religious mythology.
Rancho Santa Anita changed hands several times before the multimillionaire, silver baron and rancher E. That same year his Los Angeles Investment Company began subdividing and selling parcels from many of his ranchos. Spence, John D. Bicknell , James F. Crank , and J. The completion of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad in , later sold to the Santa Fe which would run through Monrovia and Southern Pacific railroads to Southern California brought new people looking for homes and investment opportunities.
With this in mind, Monroe, Spence, Bicknell, Crank, and Falvey combined their land under the business name of the Monrovia Land and Water Company in , centered at Orange now Colorado Boulevard and Myrtle Avenues; the first tract extended from Magnolia Avenue on the west to Charlotte Avenue Canyon Boulevard on the east, a half block south of Walnut on the south and a half block north of Lime on the north.
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The town was incorporated in under the leadership of prohibitionists who wished to control the arrival of an unwelcome saloon. The newly formed government's first order of business was to pass a tippler's law, prohibiting the sale of alcohol.
