This street was born in 1900 as Newton Avenue on the Newton Park tract. After the City of Los Angeles annexed El Sereno (then called Bairdstown) in 1915, this street was renamed to avoid duplication with DTLA’s Newton Street. “Pueblo” may well have been chosen as a replacement since pueblo is Spanish for “town” and the name “Newton” is derived from “new town”. (Think I’m crazy? Nearby Novgorod Street was named precisely because novgorod means “newtown” in Russian.) This Newton, by the way, was landowner Mary Newton (1848-1904). Born Mary Hulda Titus in New York, she came to the San Gabriel Valley in 1871 with her husband and father, both Civil War veterans. (See Newtonia Drive for more.) Newton settled in South Pasadena and died rich – but see Drysdale Avenue for the family drama that erupted after her demise.
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