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Real Estate Appraisers and Appraisals In
Los Angeles County, City of Whittier
| Whittier is home
to Whittier College and Southern California University of Health Sciences. The
city's population as a whole has grown since its founding days but has
experienced rapid growth particularly starting in the 90s. In the founding days
of Whittier, when it was a small isolated town, Jonathan Bailey and his wife,
Rebecca, were among the first residents. They followed the Quaker religion, and
held religious meetings on their porch. As the city grew, the citizens named it
after John Greenleaf Whittier, a respected Quaker poet. Whittier wrote a
dedication poem, and is honored today with statues and a small exhibit at the
Whittier museum; a statue of him sits in the park, and another representing his
poem The Barefoot Boy resides by the City Hall. Consequently, the college there
is called Whittier College, and the mascot, appropriately, is "The
Poet." Whittier never set foot there, but the city still bears his name
and is rooted in the Quaker tradition. Despite the name, much of the youth
culture in the city refers to the name as "Fwhittier", In 1987, the
Whittier Narrows earthquake struck with the epicenter being 6 miles
north-by-northwest of Whittier resulting in massive damage to the historic
structure of Uptown Whittier. In the years following the earthquake, the City's
deteriorating Uptown Business District, which suffered substantial damage in
the quake, saw renewed development and is now a thriving retail center. |
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