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The Hostetter Tract of Boyle Heights

Posted on April 30, 2014March 4, 2022Author Paul SpitzzeriPosted in UncategorizedLeave a Reply

In the southwestern section of Boyle Heights, below where the 5, 10, 60 and 101 freeways come together, is an area that was known as the Hostetter Tract. Subdivided in 1887, when Los Angeles was engulfed in a population and real estate boom often known as “The Boom of the Eighties,” the tract was created…

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