Governing body City of Los Angeles Reference no. 49 | Designated May 10, 1967 Year built 1903 | |
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Location Lassen Street, between Topanga Canyon Boulevard & Farralone Avenue, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California. Similar Old Santa Susana Stage Ro, Minnie Hill Palmer House, Oakwood Memorial Park Cem, Santa Susana Pass Stat, Chatsworth station | ||
The Lassen Street Olive Trees, also known as 76 Mature Olive Trees, are a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument located in the Chatsworth community of the northwestern San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles, Southern California.
History
An avenue (alleé) of Olive trees (Olea europaea) were planted in 1890 along a then dirt road by N. A. Grey, who owned property there. They are believed to have been grown from cuttings taken from the Spanish Colonial c. 1800 planted olive orchard trees at the Mission San Fernando Rey de España across the Valley.
When the site was designated a Historic-Cultural Monument in 1967, there were 76 olive trees along several blocks of western of Lassen Street. According to the Chatsworth Daughters of the American Revolution chapter, there are 49 trees surviving/remaining in the 2010s.