The Lincoln name came to the Eastside in 1913. That’s when Avenue 21 Intermediate was rechristened Lincoln High School. Four years later, Eastlake Park (originally East Los Angeles Park, on land donated by John S. Griffin and Hancock M. Johnston) was renamed Lincoln Park, Prichard Street became Lincoln Park Avenue, and the whole area started calling itself Lincoln Heights. Some claim that, in the patriotic fervor of World War I, local leaders wanted to distance the neighborhood from its anti-Union roots – Hancock Johnston’s father was a noted Confederate Army general – by honoring the late Abraham Lincoln. Music footnote: L.A. rock band Linkin Park took their name from this Lincoln Park.
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