Lynwood station

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View of Long Beach Boulevard looking north, shows Lynwood from the car tracks. Also visible is the Pacific Electric Station on the left.Lynwood is a 4.9 square mile city, located in the southern portion of the Los Angeles Basin, in Los Angeles County. The families who first came to the Lynwood territory arrived in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In 1902, C.H. Sessions acquired the title to approximately 400 acres of land that had once belonged to Don Antonio Lugo he established "the Lynwood Diary and Creamery", named after his wife's maiden, Miss Lynne Wood. In 1913, 800 acres were opened up for 'suburban' home sites, and just 8 short years later, on July 16, 1921, voters approved incorporation of the city.