![]() Spadra Rubottom's Hotel and stagecoach station at Spadra, 1867 Louis Phillips’ 1875 Second Empire-style mansion at the site of the town of Spadra In 1864, the widow of Ygnacio Palomares of Rancho San José sold 12,000 acres (49,000,000 m 2 49 km 2) to Louis Phillips, a Jewish Prussian immigrant, who would shortly be known as "the richest man in Los Angeles County." He built the largest commercial building in Los Angeles central business district at the time, the Phillips Block, which would eventually house Hamburger's, the then-largest department store in the Western United States. The first Anglo-Americans arrived prior to 1848 when the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo resulted in California becoming part of the United States. The city was first settled by Ricardo Véjar and Ygnacio Palomares in the 1830s, when California and much of the now-American Southwest were part of Mexico. ![]() For horticulturist Solomon Gates, "Pomona" was the winning entry in a contest to name the city in 1875, before anyone had ever planted a fruit tree there. The city is named after Pomona, the ancient Roman goddess of fruit. History Beginnings to 1880 The Adobe de Palomares, built in 1855 by Ygnacio Palomares, is the oldest building in Pomona. The main campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, also known as Cal Poly Pomona, lies partially within Pomona's city limits, with the rest being located in the neighboring unincorporated community of Ramona. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 151,713. Pomona is located in the Pomona Valley, between the Inland Empire and the San Gabriel Valley. ![]() Pomona is a city in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. ![]()
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