Early Settlers of Lynwood

When you visit the City of Lynwood Website, there is a long history about the early settling of the city. It includes characters that echo all the names of streets we remember: Don Antonio Lugo, who was granted the original land in 1810, then nearly a century later, his daughter deeded the land to a man named Heldman who then deeded it to an M.A. Sheilds in 1871. One of the founding families was named Abbott, then a family named Slauson deeded the land to a C.H. Sessions in 1902 whose wife's maiden name was Miss Lynne Wood. The area was then called Lynwood Dairy and Creamery.

The Lynwood company, a real estate developer with seven owners (including the Abbott family), set up shop among the dairy lands, sugar beet and hay farms in 1913.

The Lynwood Company, began bringing excursions of settlers to a circus tented area, offering lunch and free water service to anyone who would build on their 800 acres of land. This rare occasion was captured in one of the Phil Skinner collection of postcards (above).

The postcard above, dated in 1918, shows a home that was sold by the Lynwood Company in those early days. The exact location is unknown.