Originally purchased by Abbott Kinney in 1887 to be an addition to Santa Monica called Santa Monica Heights; the streets were laid out in a regular grid pattern and streets were given names like Kinney, Seabreeze, and Pacific. Rows of eucalyptus trees were planted, some of which can be seen today in arrangements that bear no relationship to the present street plan.
Later purchased by the Pacific Palisades Association on February 6, 1926 the 226-acre plot was developed with the intent to serve a very distinctive clientele.
One of the earliest land transfers from the original Marquez heirs, the mesa changed hands from Francisca Marquez de Pena in 1887 to Abbot Kinney. After an economic dip forced Kinney to abandon his Santa Monica Heights project, the property was sold to Collis P. Huntington, who had plans for it on behalf of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
He named it the Huntington Palisades which was the name that the Association kept when they purchased it in 1926.
Names of the streets were chosen by one of the Association’s members and original planning engineers of the Huntington Palisades, W. W. Williams. They were based on his mining experiences in Mexico and bear the names of towns, people and places of Spanish decent.
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Almoloya is a town in Chihuahua, Mexico, southwest of Mexico City. The original name of the the street was "La Luz."
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