What did early residents call South Gate, and how were its first borders drawn?

"and was advertising plots of lands for sale in a new community it was calling South Gate Gardens."

"Paved streets, water mains, and gas lines followed the construction of new homes, a business district was established nearby, and in 1923 community leaders convinced the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to incorporate South Gate as a city"

"During the eighteenth century, the area between the San Gabriel Mountains and the Pacific seacoast now occupied by South Gate was home to at least two villages of Gabrielino Indians whose ancestors had settled the area more than two thousand years before."

"Spanish ranchers controlled the future South Gate lands during much of the nineteenth century, before their ranches gave way to dairies and vegetable and fruit farms."

"By 1917 developers saw in the cauliflower fields and apple orchards the potential for a shiny new residential community, selling tracts of land for houses and introducing an infrastructure that also beckoned Eastern companies looking to gain a foothold in the West to expand their markets."

"Early developers accelerated the suburbanization of what was then called South Gate Gardens by subdividing the land into small plots and selling the empty plots to blue-collar workers, many of which were Okies ."

"In 1810, the King of Spain formally granted the land to Lugo as a reward for his and his father's military service. [ 11 ] Around a century later, the area around the southern gate of the ranch became the City of South Gate. [ 12 ]"

"Before the end of the 1870s, much of the original land grant had been replaced by tracts of 40-acre (160,000 m 2 ) ."

"A majority of early homes were built individually as plot owners used "sweat equity rather than cash to construct their own homes" and the local economy relied heavily on urban agriculture. [ 13 ]"