EAST OF ALLEN: "One of the most charming grottos of the world"

EAST OF ALLEN: "One of the most charming grottos of the world": "SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2009

'One of the most charming grottos of the world'
Let's turn the clock back to 1876 and say you wanted to move from the cold snowy east to sunny southern California. Well, there was no California Aqueduct, no Colorado River water and no Pasadena Water and Power. You'd have to find water yourself before you could live here.

So it was in 1876 for William Cogswell when he purchased property in what is now east Pasadena and built the famous Sierra Madre Villa Hotel. When Cogswell bought his property, he also purchased rights to 1/2 of the water flowing over a water fall in Davis Canyon, just north of present day Pasadena Glen."