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Beverly Hills
Incorporated in 1914. Flats estates on the tree-named streets, Trousdale mid-century, and the canyons above Sunset.
History
How Beverly Hills came to be.
- 1906
The Rodeo Land and Water Company renames the old ranch Beverly Hills after its oil search came up dry. The name comes from Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.
- 1912
The Beverly Hills Hotel opens built to draw buyers to the new lots around it.
- 1914
Beverly Hills incorporates as a city, and its population grows from 674 in 1920 to more than 17,000 by 1930.
- 1928
Edward L. Doheny's Greystone Mansion is completed in the hills above Sunset.
- 1956
Paul Trousdale opens Trousdale Estates, the hillside tract that became a showcase of mid-century modern design.
Points of interest
Places that define Beverly Hills
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Fun facts
Things even locals forget
Beverly Hills is an island.
Together with West Hollywood it forms a pocket completely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles.
The name came from Massachusetts.
Burton Green named the town after Beverly Farms, near Beverly, Massachusetts.
A national first.
Beverly Hills became the first U.S. city to end nearly all tobacco sales.
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