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In the early 1900s, real estate developer Jared Sidney Torrance and other investors saw the value of creating a mixed industrial–residential community south of Los Angeles. They purchased part of an old Spanish land grant and hired landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. to design a planned community.
In 1912 Jared Sidney Torrance and several business associates formed The Dominguez Land Company. This company acquired land and founded the City of Torrance. The City was officially incorporated as a California Municipality in 1921. The Dominguez Land Company created a unique legacy for Torrance by hiring The Olmsted Brothers to
Jared Sidney Torrance (August 3, 1853 – March 29, 1921) was an American real estate developer, best known as the founder of Torrance in southwest Los Angeles County, California. Southern California Jared Torrance was born in Gowanda , New York in 1853, and moved to Southern California in approximately 1887 to settle initially in Pasadena where he worked in real estate.
Torrance este un oraș situat în sud-vestul zonei cunoscută ca "South Bay" din regiunea aglomerării urbane a Comitatului Los Angeles din statul California, Statele Unite ale Americii. Conform recensământului din anul 2000 efectuat de Biroul de recenăminte al SUA , populația orașului fusese de 137.946 ; în timp ce o estimare din 2005 determina numărul locuitorilor ca fiind 142.384 .
טורנס (באנגלית: Torrance) היא עיר במחוז לוס אנג'לס, קליפורניה, ארצות הברית. לעיר 2.4 ק"מ של חוף לאורך האוקיינוס השקט . אוכלוסיית העיר בשנת 2016 נאמדה ב-147,195 תושבים, מה שהופך אותה לעיר ה-39 בגודלה בקליפורניה וה-171 בארצות הברית.
Jared Sidney Torrance Tiŋa: America Din be shɛli polona: Los Angeles County Located in statistical territorial entity: Los Angeles metropolitan area Tiŋgbaŋ yaɣili calinli: 33°50′9″N 118°20′26″W Office held by head of government: mayor Tiŋgbani zuɣ'lana: George Chen Tiŋgbani nahangbani kalinli: 90501–90510, 90501, 90505 ...
Gone too are the Pacific Electric's Torrance shops at the western branch of the split, now the site of an industrial park and which still receives trains on the local line. The bridge was designed by Irving Gill and was built in 1913 as part of the original layout of the city as drawn up by Jared Sidney Torrance and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. .
