The original Mayberry Street, named in 1888 on the Berkeley tract, was a totally different roadway that ran between Reservoir and Effie. It was absorbed by Mohawk Street in 1905. Six years later, the former Angelica Avenue became the Mayberry Street you know and love today. Now get this: two of the landowners who christened this “new” Mayberry Street in 1911, Harry H. Mayberry (1867-1920) and Edward L. Mayberry Jr. (1871-1957), were the sons of Edward Leodore Mayberry (1834-1902) – one of the owners of the Berkeley tract and thus the namesake of the old street! (Full disclosure: Harry was his adopted stepson.) Pops was a Maine-born Civil War veteran who came to San Francisco in 1869 and became a prominent architect and developer. He and his family moved to Alhambra in 1878 and purchased the nearby El Molino ranch three years later. That land was ultimately sold to Henry Huntington in 1903. (Quoth Huntington: “We have bought the Mayberry ranch without exactly knowing why.”) He was also known for cofounding the town of Hemet in Riverside County.
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