Gardena is a city located in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 58,829 at the 2010 census, up from 57,746 at the 2000 census. Until 2014, the US census cited the City of Gardena as the place in imitation of the highest percentage of Japanese Americans in California. Gardena’s Japanese American population contributes to the South Bay region of Los Angeles being house to the largest raptness of Japanese companies within the mainland United States.

Based on archaeological findings, the Tongva people hunted and fished in the Place of today’s Gardena. The Tongva Indians — also known as Gabrielino Indians — are probably descendants of those who crossed from Asia to North America with citation to 10,000 years ago.

In 1784, three years after the creation of Los Angeles, Juan Jose Dominguez (1736–1809), a Spanish soldier who arrived in San Diego, California in 1769 past Fernando Rivera y Moncada, in recognition of his military service, received the on the order of 43,000-acre (170 km) Spanish home grant, the Rancho San Pedro. Part of this land contained what became known as Gardena Valley. After the American Civil War veterans bought parts of the land, and soon ranchers and farmers followed suit. Union Army Major General William Starke Rosecrans in 1869 bought 16,000 acres (65 km²). The “Rosecrans Rancho” was bordered by what sophisticated was Florence Avenue on the north, Redondo Beach Boulevard upon the south, Central Avenue upon the east, and Arlington Avenue on the west. The Rosecrans property was subdivided and sold in the to the front 1870s. One of those became the 650-acre (2.6 km) Amestoy Ranch. Gardena proper began in 1887 as soon as the Pomeroy & Harrison genuine estate developers subdivided the ranch, anticipating the coming of the Los Angeles and Redondo Railway. Civil War veteran Spencer Roane Thorpe is credited with starting the first unity in Gardena in 1887. Railroads put Gardena upon the map subsequently a real estate boom in the Los Angeles area in the 1880s.

Some admit the city was named for its reputation for visceral the only “green spot” in the teetotal season along with Los Angeles and the sea. Because of its acres of berries, the city was dubbed “Berryland”. The Strawberry Day Festival and Parade was held each May. The berry industry suffered at the time of World War I as extra crops were supported by the court case economy.