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Several houses had been built in the rural area known as
Lakewood Village. The houses were favored with a pleasant setting and the proximity of the Lakewood Country Club. It has been suggested that Bouton Lake, located on the golf course and formed in 1895 when drilling operations opened an artesian
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Charles B. Hopper to subdivide the land and sell house lots. In August 1932, the Los Angeles Times announced "Huge New Tract Launched; 9,000 Acre Development Near Los Alamitos Being Built Around Golf Course Project." It is suggested
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sugar mill closed in 1926, due to declining beet production, Bonner envisioned turning part of the
Montana Ranch into an upper-middle-class suburb to take advantage of the local real estate boom due to the discovery of oil wells. The new subdivision was a leisurely commute from downtown Long Beach,
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Lakewood, New Jersey where his uncle William A. Clark had built estates at the end of the 19th century.
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Douglas workers were begun in what is now Lakewood Village. Yet even as the defense workers moved into their new homes, the fields between South Street and Lakewood Village remained empty.
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