The Tongva's (aka the Gabrileno) peoples homeland stretch from parts above the Northern Los Angeles County, south to Long Beach and even eastward towards Orange County.
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| Antonio Portillo, now retired Lynwood High School teacher of the Dine (aka Navajo) nation together with his group, Wild Horse. He was also advisor to the Chicano student high school group, MEChA |
In the aftermath of the Spanish conquest, the land now known as Lynwood would become privatized into separate ranchos (or ranches). The land was granted to Don Antonio Lugo in 1810 and he named it Rancho San Antonio, after his birthplace. Lugo was also mayor of Los Angeles from 1816-1819. The city was patented in 1847. After Lugo's death the land was partitioned among his children. Guadalupe Lugo, one of his children, ended up deeding the land to a man by the name of Heldman. It was deeded once again in 1871 to the Shields family. After a series of dealings the destiny of the land to be known as Lynwood is perhaps best explained by the website:
In 1902, C.H. Sessions had acquired title of about 400 acres and established a dairy and creamery. His wife's maiden was Miss Lynne Wood and they all agreed to call the place "the Lynwood Dairy and Creamery" and it was located at what is now Sanborn and Long Beach Blvd. Later the Southern Pacific Railway had a siding here, which they called the ' Lynwood siding'...
Later, seven gentlemen formed the Lynwood Company and they brought excursions of potential buyers to Lynwood. They opened up 800 acres for 'suburban' home sites in 1913... H.V. Copeland was one of the seven members of Lynwood company and he built the first residence in Lynwood at Long Beach Blvd
At the time of the dairy, there was not even a country road where Long Beach Blvd. is now. Many years later, Long Beach Blvd. was paved and became a main street in Lynwood.
http://www.lynwood.ca.us/about/history
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