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William Henry Workman: Founder of Boyle Heights

Posted on September 23, 2009February 10, 2022Author Paul SpitzzeriPosted in UncategorizedLeave a Reply

As Paredon Blanco, the area that became Boyle Heights, passed from ownership by the Lopez and Rubio families to Irish immigrant Andrew Boyle, the change to the landscape was minimal. Boyle tended the vineyards that had been there before him and built a brick house, but little changed until Los Angeles began to experience its…

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