Rose Hills is a neighborhood on the
Eastside of Los Angeles.
History
The Rose Hills area is located near the original site of the
Tongva
The Tongva ( ) are an Indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately . Some descendants of the people prefer Kizh as an endonym that, they argue, is more historically ...
village of
Ochuunga
Otsungna was a Tongva village located in what is now the El Sereno neighborhood of Los Angeles, California and California State University, Los Angeles. It was referenced as the "Otsungna Prehistoric Village Site" in the construction of State Rou ...
, whose name derives from the
Tongva language word for "wild rose."
Historical reports and maps in archives indicate that Rose Hills was part of an 1839 Mexican land grant named "
Rancho Rosa Castilla Rancho Rosa Castilla was a Mexican land grant in the southwestern San Rafael Hills, in present day Los Angeles County, California, given to Juan Ballesteros in 1831 by Governor Manuel Victoria.
It included present day Rose Hills, Lincoln Hei ...
". The first recorded owner of the Rancho was Juan Ballesteros, registrar of the pueblo. After statehood, land claim #309 SD was filed in 1852 to confirm it. By the late 1850s the land had been transferred twice, and was owned by Anacleto Lestrade, priest at
La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles
''La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles'' (English: "The Church of Our Lady Queen of the Angels") is a historic Catholic church in El Pueblo de los Ángeles Historical Monument in northern downtown Los Angeles, California. The ch ...
, the mission church of the
Pueblo de Los Ángeles
El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles (English language, English: ''The town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels''), shortened to Pueblo de los Ángeles, was the Spanish civilian ''Municipality, pueblo'' settled in 1781, which ...
. One of the original 36 adobes in California stood on Rancho Rosa Castilla.
Geography
In 2006, The Rose Hills Neighborhood and Community Alliance gathered signatures on a petition stating "the community of Rose Hills is requesting that our representative of the 14th District Council Office initiate a motion to request the City Council of Los Angeles to support the installation of additional community signs for recognition". Letters of support were submitted by state senator Ed Hernandez, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, the Los Angeles Public Library and others. Historic newspaper articles using the Rose Hills name were also submitted.
On September 12, 2013, city council issued a motion stating that "the community of Rose Hills has been in existence for hundreds of years". It noted that Rose Hills was among several communities surrounding
El Sereno and instructed the Department of Transportation to install five signs at the following locations: Monterey Road at the Monterey Road Pass, Huntington Drive North and Collis Avenue, Soto Street and Mission Road, before the Soto Street Bridge, Mission Road and Broadway Place, and Mercury Avenue and Reynolds Avenue.
The neighborhood of
Hermon
Mount Hermon ( ar, جبل الشيخ or جبل حرمون / ALA-LC: ''Jabal al-Shaykh'' ("Mountain of the Sheikh") or ''Jabal Haramun''; he, הַר חֶרְמוֹן, ''Har Hermon'') is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of th ...
is located to the north, with signage installed on the north side of the Monterey Road Pass
Education
* Huntington Drive Elementary School (opened in 1909 as Rose Hill Elementary School)
Parks and recreation
* Rose Hill Recreation Center, 4560 Mercury Avenue
* Rose Hill Park, 3606 N. Boundary Avenue
References
{{Los Angeles Eastside
Neighborhoods in Los Angeles
El Sereno, Los Angeles
Northeast Los Angeles