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Neighborhood Spotlight: Historic, Architecture-Rich, & Vibrant Bixby Knolls

Written by Kelly Weimert on Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 at 10:05am.

Source: lbpost.com Bixby Knolls is an affluent Long Beach, California, neighborhood that draws many to its family-friendly feel, which is rich in historic architecture and charming shops and restaurants.  Bixby Knolls was once 300,000 acres of land gifted to Spanish soldier Manuel Nieto in 1784. In the decades thereafter, the land was reduced by half due to Nieto's legal missteps with Mission San Gabriel friars. Several decades after Nieto died in 1804, the land was reduced further by the soldier’s heirs who divided it into six parts. One of those parts would become the land on which Rancho Los Cerritos was built, which cattle rancher John Temple purchased in 1843.  Rancho Los Cerritos | Source: wikipedia.org Temple’s cattle business was short-lived, due i...