La Verne is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 31,063 at the 2010 census, down from 31,638 at the 2000 census.

The European chronicles of the area dates urge on to the 1830s later than Ygnacio Palomares and Ricardo Véjar established the 15,000-acre (61 km) Rancho San Jose land ascend from Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado in 1837. The house included the present day cities Pomona, Claremont, San Dimas, Glendora, and La Verne. The adobe which Palomares built in 1837 is yet preserved in Pomona as La Casa Primera de Rancho San Jose (The First House). Palomares soon moved a mile or as a result northeast and constructed the Ygnacio Palomares Adobe. He ensured that a nephew, Jose Dolores Palomares, secured a tract of land a mile west.

In the mid-1880s, entrepreneur Isaac W. Lord purchased a tract of Jose Palomares’ land and convinced the Santa Fe Railroad company to rule its line across towards Los Angeles. Lord had the house surveyed for building lots and in 1887 had a large home sale, naming the new town ‘Lordsburg’ after himself. He along with had a large Lordsburg Hotel constructed, but the estate boom was over by the times it was completed. It sat empty for several years, until sold to four members of the German Baptist Brethren Church, who persuaded others of that denomination that it would be an excellent site for a supplementary institution of difficult learning. Lordsburg College was founded in 1891.

In 1906 the town was incorporated as “La Verne.” Residents grew arena crops, then began planting citrus trees, which flourished. Lordsburg became known as the “Heart of the Orange Empire.” The city of La Verne flourished as a center of the citrus industry until after World War II, when the citrus industry slowly faded away. Today the last two tawny groves are upon the grounds of the La Verne Mansion and Heritage Park.