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Alhambra (/ æ l ˈ h æ m b r ə / ⓘ, / ɑː l ˈ h ɑː m b r ə / ⓘ, Spanish:; from "Alhambra") is a city located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, approximately 8 miles (13 km) from the Downtown Los Angeles civic center. It was incorporated on July 11, 1903.
Rancho Rosa Castilla was a 3,283-acre (13.29 km 2) 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.
On June 12, 1886, the Alhambra School District purchased the land for its first school from John and Ellen Conner for the price of “...one thousand (1,000) dollars gold coin...”. Garfield School opened its doors to students, grades 1–9, on September 15, 1886, and the first commencement was held June 14, 1889, with five pupils receiving ...
City State Beds Acquired Acquired from hide Opened Alhambra Hospital Medical Center Alhambra: California: 144 1998 [5] Alhambra Redevelopment Agency 1920 Anaheim Regional Medical Center: Anaheim: California: 223 2009 [6] MemorialCare Health System 1958 Garfield Medical Center: Monterey Park: California: 210 2004 [5] Tenet Healthcare: 1927
Each year, Alhambra and San Gabriel host one of the largest Lunar Chinese New Year celebrations in the country which includes a parade along Valley Boulevard. [47] San Gabriel Square. Continuing east from Alhambra along Valley Boulevard are the cities of San Gabriel and Rosemead with San Marino, Temple City and Arcadia being further north and ...
Norman Rockwell, artist, lived in Alhambra in the early 1930s [4] Dorothy Howell Rodham (1919 – 2011), homemaker, mother of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Tex Schramm, president of NFL's Dallas Cowboys; Dean Scofield, actor; Peter Seidler, Founder and managing partner of Seidler Equity Partners. Chairman and owner of the San Diego ...
The Alhambra Unified School District is a school district based in Alhambra, California. [3] For grades K-12 AUSD serves the city of Alhambra and most of the city of Monterey Park. For grades 9-12 only it includes additional parts of Monterey Park and parts of the cities of San Gabriel and Rosemead as well as a section of South San Gabriel. [4]
The Puerto Rico Department of Housing, created in 1972, [9] succeeded the Urban Renewal and Housing Corporation, or Corporación de Renovación Urbana y Vivienda (CRUV, its Spanish acronym), [10] which was created in the late 1950s to succeed the Puerto Rico Housing Authority, created by Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín and headed by Juan César Cordero ...