Arroyo Seco, meaning “dry stream” in Spanish, was named by Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola in 1770. Arroyo Seco was first inhabited by the Tongva indians. In 1874 a group of people who were sick of the bitter cold winter of Indiana and moved to Arroyo Seco to set up a citrus growing community along what is now Orange Grove Boulevard. Later Arroyo Seco became known for its transportation corridor, beginning in 1886 with railroad bridges and continuing on in the early 1900s to include the Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars which ran into Los Angeles as well as the Pacific Electric Railway Red cars that ran east into the San Gabriel valley. In 1900 a local Pasadena resident Horace Dobbins built the California Cycleway that started at the Green Hotel in Pasadena and reached to the Raymond Hotel in Alhambra. Many of the homes below are found in the neighborhood originally founded by the Indiana Colony along Orange Grove Boulevard.
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