Duarte, California

=== Spanish era === Duarte's history with Europeans dates back to 1769, when all land in California was claimed by the king of Spain.

On September 8, 1771, the Franciscans established the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in the San Gabriel Valley.

Following Mexican independence in 1821, the mission lands were nationalized.

=== Mexican era === On May 10, 1841, the governor of Alta California, Juan Bautista Alvarado, granted to former Mexican corporal Andrés Avelino Duarte and his wife nearly 7,000 ...

=== Post-Conquest era === Following the American Conquest of California, the territory was ceded by Mexico to the United States in 1848 at the end of the Mexican–American War.

In 1851, Congress passed a bill that established a Board of Land Commissioners whose duty was to determine the validity of all grants of Alta California land by Spanish and Mexi...

Corporal Duarte finally won a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court for his land grant case in 1878, but by then he had sold the entire Rancho.

grown from one of four seeds sent to him by the Division of Pomology of the United States Department of Agriculture in 1893.

In 1913, the Jewish Consumptive Relief Association started a tuberculosis sanitarium in the form of a small tent city on 40 acres (16 ha) of land south of Duarte Road.

In 1930, a group of Carmelite nuns known as the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles established what is now the Santa Teresita Rest Home, known until recen...