This started out as Newton Street on the Garvanza Addition No. 1 tract, way back in 1886. (I don’t know who or what inspired the name.) It was changed to Newland Street by the Board of Public Works in 1900, not long after the City of Los Angeles annexed Garvanza, as L.A. already had a Newton Street downtown. The thought process behind the “new” name should be obvious.
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