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Whittier Flower Delivery Service
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Whittier Zip Codes:
90603 90602 90601 90606 90605 90607 90608 90609
Whittier: latitude 33.9678 – longitude -118.0188
Whittier is a city in Southern California in Los Angeles County, part of the Gateway Cities. The 14.7-square-mile (38.0 km) city had 87,306 residents as of the 2020 United States census, an accumulation of 1,975 from the 2010 census figure. Whittier was incorporated in February 1898 and became a charter city in 1955. The city is named for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier and is house to Whittier College.
In the founding days of Whittier, when it was a little isolated town, Jonathan Bailey and his wife, Rebecca, were in the course of the first residents. They followed the Quaker religious faith and practice, and held religious meetings upon their porch. Other in the future settlers, such as Aquila Pickering, espoused the Quaker faith. As the city grew, the citizens named it after John Greenleaf Whittier, a venerated Quaker poet, and deeded a lot to him. Whittier wrote a dedication poem, and is privileged today in the same way as statues and a small exhibit at the Whittier museum; a statue of him sits in Whittier’s Central Park, and unconventional representing his poem “The Barefoot Boy” used to reside by the City Hall and is now in front of the main library. Whittier never set foot there, but the city nevertheless bears his make known and is rooted in the Quaker tradition.
Whittier’s roots can be traced to Spanish soldier Manuel Nieto. In 1784, Nieto normal a Spanish land allow of 300,000 acres (1,200 km2), Rancho Los Nietos, as a compensation for his military facilitate and to encourage settlement in California. The Place of Nieto’s land consent was edited in 1790 as the repercussion of a dispute when Mission San Gabriel. Nonetheless, Nieto nevertheless had affirmation to 167,000 acres (680 km2) stretching from the hills north of Whittier, Fullerton, and Brea, south to the Pacific Ocean, and from what is known today as the Los Angeles River east to the Santa Ana River. Nieto built a rancho for his family near Whittier, and purchased cattle and horses for his ranch and furthermore planted cornfields. When Nieto died in 1804, his children inherited their father’s property.
At the era of the 1840s Mexican–American War, much of the estate that would become Whittier was owned by Pio Pico, a rancher and the last Mexican executive of Alta California. Pio Pico built a hacienda here upon the San Gabriel River, known today as Pio Pico State Historic Park. Following the Mexican–American War, German immigrant Jacob F. Gerkens paid $234 to the U.S. government to acquire 160 acres (0.6 km) of land under the Homestead Act and built the cabin known today as the Jonathan Bailey House. Gerkens would difficult become the first chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department. Gerkens’ land was owned by several others before a outfit of Quakers purchased it and expanded it to 1,259 acres (5 km), with the intent of founding a Quaker community. The area soon became known as a rich citrus ranching region, with “Quaker Brand” fruit living thing shipped all over the United States. Beginning in 1887, walnut trees were planted, and Whittier became the largest walnut grower in the United States. In supplement to walnuts and citrus, Whittier was also a major producer of pampas grass.