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Sierra
Madre is curled up in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountain range.
It is a small,
quaint, safe, friendly village with storefronts reminiscent of the 1920's
and 1930's.
Founded in 1880 and incorporated in 1907, Sierra Madre was developed
by an ambitious entrepreneur named Nathaniel Carter, who purchased the
land from Lucky Baldwin
in 1875. He laid out plans for a Utopian community that would be called "Nature's
Sanitarium". By the turn of the century, Sierra Madre was a well established,
prosperous town with its own orange groves, water system, post office, city hall
and amateur drama society.
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