Bellflower, CA
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N 33° 53.010 W 118° 07.327
11S E 396230 N 3749805
The city hall for Bellflower, CA.
Waymark Code: WM9TQ9
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 09/28/2010
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"Bellflower is a city in Los Angeles County, California, and is a suburb of Los Angeles. It was incorporated on September 3, 1957. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 72,878.
The city derives its name from the bellefleur apple, which was grown in local orchards during the early 1900s.
Originally settled by dairy farmers of Dutch, Japanese, and Portuguese descent, Bellflower and neighboring Paramount served as the milk production centers for Southern California until soaring post-World War II property values motivated most of the farmers to move several miles east to the Dairy Valley/Dairyland/Dairy City area (now the cities of Cerritos, La Palma, and Cypress). Today, the "A-B-C" region, formed by Bellflower and neighboring Artesia and Cerritos, is considered one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse in the United States.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Bellflower Boulevard, the city's main thoroughfare, was a thriving commercial strip for shopping. The downtown corridor is currently being revived through a redevelopment plan, and Bellflower was one ten communities nationwide to be selected by American City & County Magazine as a 2008 “America’s Crown Communites” winner." (
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