“The Romance of La Puente Rancho” Including Excerpts from “La Puente Valley, Past and Present” by Janet and Dan N. Powell (W.P.A. Writers Project), Compiled and written by Lenore Rowland, (c) 1958, Printed by the Neilson Press, Covina, Calif., public domain digitized by Google from original a University of California.
La Puente Rancho, in the San Gabriel Valley of Alta California, Mexico is now part of Los Angeles County, California — a big part. The rancho, covering about 76 square miles of prime land, was developed by John Albert Rowland and William Workman after the leading the Rowland-Workman Expedition from the Sante Fe – Taos area to southern California in 1841.
Lenore Rowland, the author and a descendant of John Albert Rowland, describes the expedition, acquisition and development of the rancho, and the rancho lifestyle. The historical account covers the period from about 1840 through 1920.
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