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Justin Flores Language Arts Honors Period 4 1-18-17 Montclair 's History The history of Montclair, as with other communities in Southern California, is rich and colorful. Serrano Indians were the earliest known inhabitants of the land that is now Montclair. In 1774, Captain Juan Bautista de Anza named that sycamore tree-lined creek "Arroyo de los Alisos," the Stream of the Sycamores, later renamed San Antonio Creek. Up until the 1890s, Montclair was little more than grazing land and a watering hole. This signaled the beginning of land development and the formation of a viable community. In the early 1900s, Emil Firth, a Los Angeles land developer, named the 1,000-acre land tract "Monte Vista." Settlers moved in shortly

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