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Historic Solano Canyon was founded in 1866 by Francisco Solano and Rosa Casanova in the then Stone Quarry Hills in Los Angeles

~~~Welcome to Solano Canyon, founded in 1866. The founding of the Solano Canyon community was when Francisco Solano, a native of Costa Rica, bought 86 acres of land in 1866 from the City of Los Angeles. Solano, a butcher, had a meat-packing business downtown, just north of the Plaza Church on Main Street. Within a few years, he built an adobe on the watercourse between present-day Solano Avenue an

d Casanova Street and moved both his family and his business to the Canyon. Solano and his wife, Rosa Casanova, also from Costa Rica, raised six children here. Much of the Solano property was subdivided after the deaths of Francisco and Rosa by their son, Los Angeles City and County Surveyor Alfredo Solano, and, from 1888 forward, the community grew rapidly. The original Solano property extended from present-day North Broadway nearly to the Police Academy, and from Elysian Park to Sulphur Ravine.

01/31/2025

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/elysian-park-neighbors-start-community-fire-watch-in-wake-of-devastating-wildfires/

Elysian Park neighborhood is banding together to make sure what happened in the Palisades and Altadena. Rachel Kim reports.

03/23/2024

Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo introduced a bill on Friday that will seek reparations for the families that were displaced from the Chavez Ravine, now the home of Dodger Stadium.

04/02/2022

“The story of Dodger Stadium has been condensed and mythologized. It has become—with good reason—like a fable. The real history is less like a fable and more like the story of a crime that Los Angeles perpetuated on itself.” As a junior in high school in Culver City, Calif.

03/31/2022

Help stop Frank McCourt’s crazy gondola over LA! Sign up to https://stopthegondola.org/

12/29/2021

We fall asleep to the sound of rain, and we wake up to the rhythmic sounds of rain.

10/10/2021

08/02/2021

Riboli/Broadway Project

It's been five years since the family behind the San Antonio Winery initiated plans to develop a narrow lot overlooking Los Angeles State Historic Park with a large mixed-use project featuring multifamily housing and commercial space. A notice published this week by the Department of City Planning o...

06/26/2021

06/25/2021

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06/16/2021

Radio Hill

06/04/2021

The time has come for the third monthly community cleanup! The event will take place on June 6th at the head of the Portola Trail. A map of the cleanup location has been uploaded to the cleanup website (the location is marked by the red checkered flag icon).

I hope to see many of you there!
Thanks a bunch

Minerva

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498 Solano Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
90012

Website

http://www.solanocanyon.org/

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Solano Canyon consist of the streets; Solano Avenue, Casanova Street. Amador Street, Bouett Street, Jarvis Street, Academy Road (formerly Casanova) Park Row and Brooks Avenue. Solano Canyon was part of the original ravines in the Stone Quarry Hills of L.A.