Lemon Grove, California City of Lemon Grove Lemon Grove Monument Lemon Grove Monument Lemon Grove, California is positioned in the US Lemon Grove, California - Lemon Grove, California Lemon Grove is a town/city in San Diego County, California.
The region that eventually became Lemon Grove was part of Mission San Diego de Alcala, one of the Spanish missions in California.
The region that now includes Lemon Grove was granted to Santiago Arguello, who received more than 59,000 acres. The first proprietor of Lemon Grove, Robert Allison, appeared in the region in 1850, coming from Sacramento.
He purchased thousands of acres from Santiago Arguello's heirs; this territory eventually became Lemon Grove, La Mesa, Encanto, and part of Spring Valley.
Allison became a director and stockholder of the San Diego and Cuyamaca Railroad in 1886, and assembled the Allison Flume. Allison's son Joseph filed subdivision maps for "Lemon Grove" in 1892.
The climate was suitable for the cultivation of subtropical fruits and vegetables, and farmers from the East and Midwest flocked to the region. The Lemon Grove Fruit Growers Association was formed in 1893; in 1894, the San Diego Union journal referred to Lemon Grove as "a sea of lemon trees." Joseph and Anton Sones, immigrants from Bohemia, moved to Lemon Grove after stints in Seguin, Texas, and San Diego.
He was a key supporter of the huge lemon that became the town's motif and landmark. Sones and a committee of small-town ranchers hired small-town architect Alberto Treganza to build the huge lemon to "make the ultimate statement about the town's purpose, prosperity, and optimism." In the Lemon Grove Incident in 1931, Mexican American parents in Lemon Grove pursued a prosperous judicial challenge against the decision of the small-town school board to build a separate school for Mexican American pupils.
Lemon Grove was the first prosperous lawsuit against school segregation. The town/city was finally incorporated on July 1, 1977, became California's 414th city. Lemon Grove was incorporated as a general-law city; however, it continues to receive law enforcement services, via contract, from the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Lemon Grove is positioned at 32 44 0 N 117 2 1 W (32.733451, 117.033702). The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Lemon Grove had a populace of 25,320.
The ethnic makeup of Lemon Grove was 13,072 (51.6%) White, 3,495 (13.8%) African American, 225 (0.9%) Native American, 1,624 (6.4%) Asian, 275 (1.1%) Pacific Islander, 4,828 (19.1%) from other competitions, and 1,801 (7.1%) from two or more competitions.
There were 8,434 homeholds, out of which 3,295 (39.1%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 3,863 (45.8%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,419 (16.8%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 601 (7.1%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 6,458 citizens (25.5%) under the age of 18, 2,583 citizens (10.2%) aged 18 to 24, 6,900 citizens (27.3%) aged 25 to 44, 6,550 citizens (25.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,829 citizens (11.2%) who were 65 years of age or older.
13,984 citizens (55.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 10,990 citizens (43.4%) lived in rental housing units.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.6% under the age of 18, 9.0% from 18 to 24, 30.9% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 12.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
According to estimates by the San Diego Association of Governments, the median homehold income of Lemon Grove in 2005 was $55,436 (not adjusted for inflation).
In the California State Legislature, Lemon Grove is in the 38th Senate District, represented by Republican Joel Anderson, and in the 79th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Shirley Weber. In the United States House of Representatives, Lemon Grove is in California's 53rd congressional district, represented by Democrat Susan Davis. Weighing some 3000 pounds, and approximately 10 feet long and six feet wide, the lemon sculpture affectionately known as the World's Biggest Lemon sits on a concrete base at the corner of Broadway and Lemon Grove Avenue, adjoining to 3361 Main Street.
It lies before a small lemon grove beside the Orange Line Trolley tracks near the small-town street car station and downtown bus stop.
Designed by Lemon Grove architect Alberto Treganza, the lemon was originally assembled as a parade float for the 1928 Fourth of July Fiesta de San Diego parade, carrying the town's first Miss Lemon Grove, Amorita Treganza, Alberto's 16-year-old daughter.
Public major education in the town/city is provided by the Lemon Grove School District.
Lemon Grove Academy of Science and Humanities 7 8 Lemon Grove Academy PK 6 WPSAN San Diego County Map Version 1.png San Diego County portal City of Lemon Grove.
City of Lemon Grove.
Ofield & Pete Smith, Images of America: Lemon Grove, Lemon Grove Historical Society (Arcadia: 2010).
Mike Madrid, "The Lemon Grove Desegregation Case: A Matter of Neglected History" in Latino Civil Rights in Education: La Lucha Sigue (Routledge, 2016: eds.
San Diego County Sheriff's Lemon Grove Station "2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Lemon Grove city".
"Current Lemon Grove City Council".
City of Lemon Grove.
John Forester's website with Lemon Grove address Lemon Grove Academy of Science and Humanities 7-8 Lemon Grove Academy PK-6 Municipalities and communities of San Diego County, California, United States
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