Talk:Rowland Heights, California

A few problems ? How about a piece of fabrication!

The Mexican land grant Rancho La Puente was granted to John Rowland and William Workman in 1842. In 1868, John Rowland and William Workman divided Rancho La Puente, leaving Rowland the eastern half and Workman the western half. Rowland Heights was originally part of the Workman Temple homestead in California's rancho days. The original John A. Rowland homestead was behind the 99 Ranch Market near the corner of Gale Avenue and Nogales Street.

Rowland Heights has grown significantly during the 1990s. Originally built on a pig farm that covered much of modern day Rowland Heights, the Rowland Homestead was mostly orange groves until the eastward sprawl from Los Angeles spawned working-class communities and affordable housing developments then formed.

The Workman Temple Homestead was that portion of William Workman's property that the family managed to keep away from the

creditors when the Bank failed and Lucky Baldwin foreclosed on Workman and Temple. It amounts to 50 acres that could be claimed under homestead law at the time. It in no way was large enough to span any way from the location in the City of Industry near the Kmart near Valley Blvd and Hacienda Blvd where the City of Industry maintains the historic site. There has never been a Roeland Homestead although the home built by Rowland I for his second wife is behind the Hacienda-La Puente School District office in the City of Industry off of Gale.

There was for a very long time a compound of structures atop the hill off of the 60 freeway but that seem to not include any "historic" structures from Rowland I's time as it certainly would have been championed for inclusion into the historic sites lists.

And what is this about RH being on land that was in it's entirety a pig farm? Such rubbish! The Rowland's very well may have raised pigs for consumption but certainly nothing along the lines of a pig farm. The area was more suited to cattle grazing than hog raising. And what about the expanses of orange and walnut grooves in the area. One of the largest area walnut packing houses was over in La Puente. Ask any one in Rowland Hts when the suburbs spread along "5th Avenue" it was not hog turds that the evening air smelled of but the disused orange grooves blossoming. Even Rowland High if you dig deep enough will show a layer of sand when it was a rose growing farm. So who ever is wanking you people certainly are having a laugh at your expense.

The area around Rowland Elementary was land owned by the Grazides that intermarried into the Rowlands. This is really very funny76.170.88.72 (talk) 14:47, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

I have a few problems with this article. First, the nearby institutions of higher education aren't really relevant to the article, but for now I won't remove them from the article. Second, how is the nearest city 2.3 miles away from Rowland Heights? Theoretically shouldn't the nearest city be zero miles away? Unless we're talking about from the center of Rowland, but that should be clarified. WHS 02:38, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I believe that some of the information came from this website. As far as the nearest city is corcerned, it's almost always from the city's center or downtown. --Moreau36; 0327, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Various changes

• I removed the paragraph on Roy Humphreys as non-notable and unverifiable. I didn't find anything in a google search for his name except for a letter he sent to a local newspaper. The section was also not NPOV, although this wasn't the reason for removal, as it could have been rewritten if he was notable or had any sources on him.
• I moved some paragraphs from the history section into a new section called politics. I'm not sure if everything in it should be there--there's only one google search result (a link on a homeowner's association site) for the Rowland Heights Advocates for CityHood apart from their own website. Nevertheless, I left everything there for now. MrVibrating 03:27, 29 October 2007 (UTC)