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Welcome
to The City of Bellflower
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Welcome
to Bellflower a city in Los
Angeles County, California, United
States. It was incorporated on September 3, 1957. The
city derives its name from a mispronunciation of belle fleur,
a variety of apple tree.
Originally settled by dairy farmers of Dutch, Japanese,
and Portuguese descent,
Bellflower and neighboring Paramount served
as the milk production centers for Southern California until
soaring post-World
War II property values motivated most of the farmers to move
several miles east to the Dairy Valley/Dairyland area (now the
cities of Cerritos and La
Palma). Seemingly overnight, the city's pastures and farms
were replaced by sprawling subdivisions of inexpensive, largely
prefabricated single-story houses. In the 1950s and 1960s, Bellflower
Boulevard, the city's main thoroughfare, was a thriving commercial
strip. However, suburban growth in Orange
County and the San
Gabriel and San
Fernando valleys made Bellflower's relatively humble housing
tracts decidedly unattractive, and by the 1990s much of its original
population--and the businesses that served it--had left and the
city is begining to show signs of urban problems. The departed
were replaced by just about every ethnicity imaginable, to the
extent that the "A-B-C" region, formed by Bellflower
and neighboring Artesia and
Cerritos, is considered one of the most ethnically and linguistically
diverse in the United States. Bellflower Boulevard has never
recovered much of its previous business traffic, and is now lined
with few shops advertising in two dozen languages.
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City
Hall
City Hall
Chamber of Commerce Bellflower
Unified School District
website
Bellflower
Schools
Find the top-rated Bellflower 10; schools, read recent parent reviews,
or browse schools by grade level.
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Local
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Hispanic
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Miss Teen California, Sheriff's Deputy, Space Camp
Kids and a Dozen Others for Service, Achievement Hispanic
Business Inc. business and finance news and resources
for Hispanic executives, professionals, entrepreneurs,
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Business magazine, HispanTelligence market research.
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Largest Bagel - California Bellflower, California.
This bagel is a variation on a common mimetic theme in
Los Angeles, the donut. Newer donuts do not have the same
majesty.
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Recreation,
Attractions
Certified
Farmers' Markets (CFM's) Bellflower Summer
CFM, Bellflower, Los Angeles,Welcome
to the City of Bellflower Department of Parks
and Recreation. It
is our goal to offer the best in leisure activities and facilities
to residents of all ages. If you would like information
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Local
History
The original legal title to the land on which Bellflower now
stands dates back to 1784 with one of the first Spanish land
grants in California. Several Spanish soldiers petitioned Pedro
Fages, the Governor of California and a former commander in
the Spanish military, for land on which to graze their herds
of livestock. The largest of these grants went to soldier Manuel
Nieto, who received all the land between the Los Angeles and
San Gabriel Rivers. In 1832, after the Spanish were ousted
in the Mexican Revolution, the new Mexican Governor, Jose Figueroa,
divided the land into five smaller ranchos to be distributed
among Nieto’s heirs. Bellflower developed on a piece
of land bordered by three of the ranchos: Santa Gertrudes,
Los Coyotes, and Los Cerritos.
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