Hermon, Los Angeles, California
- Hermon, Los Angeles, California
Hermon is a small district in the city of Los Angeles, California. It is situated in a half square-mile valley bordered by the Arroyo Seco and the historic 110 freeway to the west, Monterey Hills to the south, and South Pasadena to the north and east. The community has been part of Los Angeles since 1912, but has retained its own unique identity. It is primarily a residential community, with a small business district in the center, one elementary school, and newly-dedicated dog park.
History
Hermon was established in 1903, when the Free Methodists church group obtained the isolated valley from owner Ralph Rogers to establish a school. The school grew to become Los Angeles Pacific College in 1934, then merged with Azusa Pacific University in the 1960s. Up until recently, the school campus held a private college prep school, Pacific Christian.
Better links were established between Hermon and the rest of Los Angeles with the construction of a bridge across Arroyo Seco at Avenue 60 in 1926, the Monterey Road pass through Walnut Hill to the south in 1930, and the Hermon Avenue (renamed Via Marisol, over the objections of many community members, by Los Angeles City Council member Art Snyder in 1978 to honor his young daughter, Erin Marisol Snyder) bridge to the west in 1939.
In the 100 years since its inception, the neighborhood has grown from 100 small lots into a community of over 3,000.
References
*cite web|url=http://www.arroyoseco.org/news.php?artic=72|author=Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times|title=“Corner of L.A. Might Be Small, but It’s Home”|accessdate=April 3|accessyear=2003
External links
* [http://www.hermon.org/ Hermon Community Website]
* [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/surroundings/la-surroundings-hermon-rm,1,1443532.realvideo?coll=la-util-local-surroundings Hermon, a video from the Los Angeles Times]
* [http://www.montecitohts.org/dogpark/map.html Hermon Dog Park]
* [http://www.asnc.us/ Arroyo Seco Neighborhood Council]
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