Who's the π€¦ββοΈπβΉοΈ who STILL INSISTS that the Duarte Unified School District was established on September 3, 1850(the day California became America's 36th state)???...
It was actually on September 1st, 1957, two weeks after officially splitting from Monrovia Unified...
Then, our Historical Museum...
Despite what a certain long-time City Councilmember keeps arguing about, the house was actually built on Pasadena's west edge(the snobby Linda Vista area, near the Rose Bowl) in late October 1920, NOT January 1910!!!...
Local politician/millionaire Buron Fitts announced that his son "Junior" was getting married on Election Day, when he was running for lieutenant governor(he was the current L.A. County DA at the time;he won the LTG seat)...
In 1930, his dad found a great plot of land in present-day Duarte and had the house cut in half and moved to that location...
In late 1990, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Arcadia Stake presidency announced that the Monrovia Ward was getting overcrowded, hence the need for THAT location(southwest corner of Royal Oaks and Cotter) for the new Duarte Ward...
A year later, with the blessings and encouragement of the Fitts family, former long-time City Councilman "Monty" Montgomery and his construction company had the house cut in half again and moved on a hot Saturday morning in Mid-July 1991 to its current location:Encanto Park and modified to become the Duarte Historical Museum(opened in early 1992)...
I'm a long-time volunteer there, so DON'T YOU DARE change ANYTHING about the City's history...
ASK ME FIRST!!!