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Immigrants from England, Bertha and Minnie Johnson bought ten acres of property fronting on East Chapman Avenue, bounded on the north by East Maple Avenue, on the west by North Cambridge Street and on the east by North Maplewood Street in 1873. They paid $40 an acre for a total of $400. They built a small house here, where they lived until Minnie died in the early 1920s. Bertha, past 80 in age, sold nine acres to sub-dividers over the years, but retained an acre on which to live. Following the death of her sister, she decided to return to England and sold the acre and house to A.L. Allcorn of Saint Louis, MO, who sought to relocated to CA. At the time of the sale, 50 years after her purchase, the same land in Orange changed hands for approximately $3,500 per single lot.

PCAD id: 16032