Rose Hills is a neighborhood on the Eastside of Los Angeles.

History

The Rose Hills area is located near the original site of the

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village of Ochuunga, whose name derives from the

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word for "wild rose." The portions of the neighborhood west of Boundary Avenue lay in the land granted to the Pueblo de Los Angeles, but the portions east of Boundary did not. 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

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, the mission church of the

Pueblo de Los Ángeles El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula, shortened to the Pueblo de los Ángeles, was the Spanish colonial pueblos and villas in North America, Spanish civilian ''pueblo'' settled in 1781, which became the ...

. One of the original 36 adobes in California stood on Rancho Rosa Castilla. In 1902, the streetcars came to the neighborhood, running along what is now Huntington Drive. Many of the homes and buildings in the neighborhood were constructed between 1902 and 1930, including Huntington Drive School, originally built in 1909. The streets of Rose Hill north and west of Huntington bear the names of jewels, such as Amethyst, Tourmaline and Sardonyx.

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

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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