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In 1853, a hut
stood on the site to represent Hollywood. By 1870, A community
flourished the area with many crops. In the 1880s, Harvey Henderson
Wilcox, made a real estate fortune, and with his wife, Daeida, and moved
to Los Angeles from Topeka. Sooner, Wilcox met a woman in the country
that spoke the language created by a Deutsch Settlement called
"Hollywood" and Daeida likes the sound of it and returning to Southern
California, gave the family ranch that name.
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Harvey Wilcoxsoon made a grid map for the town which he sent to the recorders office on February 1, 1887. With his wife as the constant advisor, he made Prospect Avenue, later called Hollywood Boulevard. Daeida raised money to help build church, a school, and a library.
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By 1900, Hollywood had a post office, a newspaper, a hotel and two markets, along with a population of 500 people. |
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The first hotel in Hollywood was the Hollywood hotel, it was opened in 1902. It is on the west side of Highland Avenue. With a dusty and unpaved road, soon turned into regularly graded and graveled. Hollywood was then incorporated as a municipality in 1903. In 1904, a new trolley car track running from Los Angeles to Hollywood was opened. It was called "The Hollywood Boulevard." |
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