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La Crescenta is located in Los Angeles, Montrose County
Population: 16,968 La Crescenta began with the dream of a physician from Indiana. In the early 1880s Dr. Benjamin Briggs, who had been a physician of long practice in Crawfordsville, Indiana, made a world-wide search for an ideal climate and found his way to Southern California. Immediately he perceived that the Cañada Valley at the foot of the Sierra Madre mountains had all the qualifications for which he had been searching. It had been his desire to devote himself to horticultural pursuits and the establishment of a health resort. With these intentions he purchased large acreage in the northwestern part of La Cañada Rancho from Col. A. W. Williams and Dr. J. L. Lanterman. Dr. Briggs did not live to carry out all of his plans, but attracted to the area many persons who were interested in his ambitions.
