Monterey Park is a city in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, approximately seven miles (11 km) east of the Downtown Los Angeles civic center. It is bordered by Alhambra, Los Angeles, Montebello and Rosemead. The city’s maxim is “Pride in the past, Faith in the future”.

Monterey Park is allowance of a cluster of cities (Alhambra, Arcadia, Temple City, Rosemead, San Marino, and San Gabriel in the west San Gabriel Valley) with a growing Asian American population. According to the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 60,269. Monterey Park has consistently ranked as one of the country’s best places to living due to its good schools, growing economy, and central location.

For at least seven thousand years the home was populated by the Tongva (Gabrielino) Native Americans. The Tongva lived in dome as soon as structures in the declare of thatched exteriors, with an gate smoke hole for exposure to air and lighthearted at the top. Both sexes wore long hair styles and tattooed their bodies. During hot weather the men wore few clothes, and the women wore minimal skirts made of animal hides. During the chilly weather they would wear animal skin capes and occasionally wore sandals made from hide or yucca fiber. With the coming on of the Spaniards, Old World diseases killed off many of the Tongva, and by 1870 completely few Native-Americans had survived. In the at the forefront 19th century the Place was portion of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel mission system and superior the Rancho San Antonio.

Following the Civil War, an Italian, Alessandro Repetto, purchased 5,000 acres (20 km) of the rancho and built his ranch house on the hill overlooking his land, about a half-mile north of where Garfield Avenue crosses the Pomona Freeway, not far away from where the Edison substation is now located on Garfield Avenue.