Bell Gardens’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Bell Gardens. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area of Bell Gardens has a history dating back thousands of years. The Tongva established settlements in the area, including the village of Chokishgna. The village prospered until the arrival of the Spanish, after which it came under the influence of Mission San Gabriel in 1771.
In the late 18th century, when the area was associated with a large amount of land situated along the lower basin of the Rio Hondo area in Los Angeles County, Bell Gardens was once a bustling agricultural center for Californios during the Spanish Empire, 1509–1823, the Mexican government, 1823–1848, and the United States, after the Mexican-American War concluded in 1848.
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Start Bell Gardens’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bell Gardens’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewHispanic American Veterans Memori…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Bell Gardens
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Bell Gardens, decade by decade
2000
unknown2 items
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Hispanic American Veterans Memorial and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.