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1810 – The friars of Mission San Gabriel build a supply station and chapel 45 miles to the east.
November 25, 1826 – Jedediah Smith is the first United States citizen to venture by land into the valley of the San Gabriel.
November 5, 1841 – The Rowland-Workman Party arrives in Los Angeles from New Mexico via the Old Spanish Trail.
1844 – British Crown subject Henry Dalton buys Rancho Azusa and adjacent lands from Luis Arenas for $7,000.
July 22, 1845 – Governor Pío Pico grants co-ownership of Rancho La Puente to Rowland's fellow settler and business partner, British-born Mexican citizen William Workman.
April 24, 1846 – The beginning of the Mexican-American War.
January 10, 1847 – Los Angeles falls to American forces following the Battle of Rio San Gabriel.
1852 – The first American settlement in the San Gabriel Valley is founded at El Monte, on the Old Spanish Trail just east of the Rio Hondo.
1854 – The first orange trees are planted in Rancho La Puente.
1858 – The United States Government declares most of Henry Dalton's Rancho Azusa to be public land.
1865 – The first general store and post office in the Lower Azusa Valley is built at "Four Corners" ("Las Cuatro Esquinas"), located at the northwest corner of the San Bernardino Road and Azusa Cañon Road.
1866 – William Rubottom founds the town of Spadra: the first American settlement in Los Angeles County located east of the San Gabriel River.
May 11-20, 1868 – Henry Dalton builds the Brush School on his rancho, bringing classroom education to the Azusa Valley.
1868 – Rowland and Workman agree to partition Rancho La Puente; Rowland becomes the sole owner of the land which will later become Covina.
c.1870 – A community center, Grange Hall, is erected on the south side of the San Bernardino Road about 500 feet west of today's Vincent Avenue.
1872 – The valley's first wood frame schoolhouse, Center School, is built at the southeast corner of Cerritos Avenue and Broadway (Gladstone Street).
October 14, 1873 – "Don Juan" Rowland dies at the age of 82.
Fall, 1873 – Lower Azusa School – the first dedicated schoolhouse in what will become the Covina area – opens for classes south of Azusa Cañon Road and west of San Dimas Wash (now the southwest corner of Cypress Street and Lark Ellen Avenue).
John Edward Hollenbeck had purchased in 1875 from three Badilla Costa Rican brothers, a failed coffee plantation, their names were Pedro Antonio Badilla, Julian Badilla, and Pedro Maria Badilla.
September 2, 1876 – Costa Ricans Pedro Maria Badilla and José Julián Badilla purchase 5,563 acres of Rancho La Puente from Charlotte M. Rowland et al. for $45,000, intending to grow coffee.
1877 – Eugene C. Griswold builds a general store and meeting hall at the northeast corner of today's Citrus Avenue and Azusa Cañon Road (Cypress Street), which also becomes the Covina area's first post office.
1877 – The Badillas successfully grow 500 coffee plants, but the experiment is abandoned due to water issues and high labor costs.
Summer, 1878 – The Badillas harvest a bumper wheat crop so well adapted to local conditions and resistant to blight that it is sold for seed rather than milled for flour.
June 27, 1879 – J. Edward Hollenbeck forecloses on a defaulted secured personal loan to Pbro.
Late 1879 – Old San Bernardino Road becomes a county road and is widened and straightened to its current alignment.
Covina, founded in 1882, is seven square miles and located in the heart of the East San Gabriel Valley, approximately 22 miles east of Downtown Los Angeles.
1882 – Covina's genesis is set in motion when businessman Joseph Swift Phillips purchases an ownership share in 2,000 acres of former Badilla lands south of San Bernardino Road from J. E. Hollenbeck for $30,000.
December, 1883 – Covina's first schoolhouse, the Phillips School, opens at the southeast corner of San Bernardino Road and Citrus Avenue.
Early 1884 – Joseph Moxley buys the first parcel of land in the Phillips Tract – 20 acres at the southwest corner of San Bernardino Road and Barranca Street – and builds the tract's first residence.
Phillips opened his tract in January 1885, preceding the Southern California land boom by several years.
1885 – Antonio Badilla sells his 100 acres to Covina pioneer Daniel Houser for $12,000 and moves most of his family back to Costa Rica.
January 15, 1886 – Francisca Vicenta Badilla, a daughter of Antonio Badilla, files a $25,000 civil suit against J. S. Phillips alleging seduction resulting in pregnancy.
Fall, 1886 – J. R. Hodges builds Covina's first permanent structure out of concrete on the south side of Badillo Street east of the Pioneer Blacksmith Shop.
1887 – Center School is expanded to 4 rooms and is the first in the valley to structure classes into grades.
1890 – Doctor James Denny Reed becomes Covina's first resident physician.
1894 – Two new 2-storey schoolhouses are constructed to replace the original Phillips School and Lower Azusa School.
October 10, 1895 – The town's first bank opens: a Covina branch of the Azusa Valley Bank.
Lemon growers form a similar association in 1895.
1896 – The Covina City School District is formed.
West Hollywood was founded in 1896 as the town of Sherman, a settlement for workers on L.A.'s trolley system.
1897 – The Chapman/A.O.U.W. Block is erected at the northwest corner of Citrus Avenue and Badillo Street.
In 1898, Hamilton Temple, the first person in Covina to own an automobile, drove his St Louis up Citrus.
Lillian Harris is the first graduate of Covina High in Spring, 1900.
Before 1900, a rich diverse social, cultural and civic life had been established.
In 1901, it becomes the First National Bank of Covina.
By 1901, due to the success of the Citrus industry, Covina’s business community was growing and prospering.
September 4, 1902 – The Covina Home Telephone Company is formed.
November 4, 1903 – The C. W. Tucker photographic studio opens for business.
1905 – Robert E. Dancer is the first to drill for water and cultivate land in the new Baldwin subdivision.
April 14, 1906 – Doctor J. D. Reed establishes the Covina National Bank.
August 7, 1909 – Covina Argus editor J. L. Matthews encourages adoption of the name "West Covina" for the farming community to the south and west of the city.
The city prospered on the production of oranges and grapefruit – it was the 3rd largest producer of oranges in 1909.
After several unsuccessful attempts to start a Chamber of Commerce, the doors were opened in 1909 to a new Chamber office on Citrus.
May, 1910 – Center is the first street in town to be paved.
The Azuza CA Carnegie Library opened in 1910.
1913 – Covina's first fire truck is placed in service.
April, 1916 – The street clock in front of the Finch Brothers Jewelry Store on Citrus Avenue is installed.
1919 – The fourth and last Covina Grammar School is constructed at Citrus and San Bernardino.
May, 1921 – Ten acres of the Adams Tract west of Fourth Street are acquired for the development of Covina Park.
Summer, 1922 – Graduate nurses Misses Melisse Wittler and Lavina Graham open the city's first hospital in the former Charles E. Bemis home at the northwest corner of Badillo and Second Street.
The City of West Covina was incorporated in 1923 to prevent the City of Covina from establishing a sewage farm within the current city boundaries.
1924 – San Jose Hills Road (roughly following today's South Grand Avenue) gives Covinans a direct route to the Walnut Valley and on to Orange County.
April 30, 1927 – The Covina swimming plunge officially opens at Covina Park.
December, 1930 – The Covina Drive-In Market opens on the southwest corner of Citrus and San Bernardino Road.
1941 – George Meeker's "Sunkist Village" is West Covina's first suburban housing development.
Fall, 1946 – Classes begin at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut, affording local high school graduates a stepping stone to higher education.
December, 1948 – The Santa Fe Dam is completed north of Arrow Highway in Irwindale, ending the threat of flooding from the San Gabriel River.
August 1, 1952 – The first stores of West Covina Center are opened on Garvey Boulevard just west of Glendora Avenue.
In 1956, it relocates to the nearby former W. K. Kellogg Arabian horse ranch, ultimately becoming today's Cal Poly Pomona.
October 24-26, 1957 – Grand opening of the Eastland Shopping Center in West Covina.
The land where Dodger Stadium is to be built, as it was in 1957.
August 27, 1958 – The Huddle restaurant in the Eastland Shopping Center – another Googie classic – serves its first customers.
December 18, 1959 – The Covina Drive-In Theatre shows its first outdoor flicks at Arrow Highway east of Grand.
November 15, 1961 – The gala premiere of the Eastland Theatre at 2504 East Workman Avenue in West Covina.
1961 – Controversy surrounds plans by Forest Lawn to open an 1,100-acre cemetery in the Covina Hills.
June 18, 1963 – The Capri Theater opens at 444 South Glendora Avenue in West Covina.
Fall, 1964 – Classes begin at the new South Hills High School at Barranca Street and Cameron Avenue in West Covina.
September 7, 1965 – The Carousel Theatre opens at 3213 East Garvey Avenue in West Covina.
October 1, 1967 – The Magan Clinic opens its new main office on West Rowland Street just east of Hollenbeck Avenue.
1969 – The former Covina Grammar School/Aetron building is razed to clear the site for a proposed new Civic Center, which is never built.
July 1, 1971 – Covina has a new main post office on Rimsdale Avenue north of San Bernardino Road.
He had been hired by Joseph Swift Philips to survey the area in question. Based on this sight, the young Frederick Eaton merged to significant words, “cove” and of course, “vine” and in 1985 the bane Covina had been created for this new township.
1986 – Covina celebrates the centennial of its founding (a year late).
2001 – Covina celebrates its centennial as an incorporated city.
January-June, 2004 – The historic Covina Theatre building is demolished to begin construction of the Covina Center for the Performing Arts.
UnknownNovember 8, 2021 at 1:08 PMA great historic time line of a wonderful small town although many items are missing! Opening of many schools including Northview Las Palmas Griswold, tne second In and Out.
UnknownMarch 1, 2022 at 1:20 PMWould love to know what sources you used for all this information.
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