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Old Posted Nov 8, 2020, 9:27 PM
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Behold, Skunk Place:

SDSU Library

Or, as described in Don Enrique Dalton of the Azusa by C.C. Baker:
Here was a rancheria of those Indians nominally attached to Mission San Gabriel, called' in the Shoshonean
Asuksagna, and in the Serrano dialect Ashukshavit, meaning, lit-
erally, skunk place. 4 It was doubtless so named from the fact that
skunks infested the hill which in pioneer days was occupied by the
adobe dwelling and extensive ranch buildings, displaced now by
Citrus Union High School in the present Azusa.
Citrus Union High School is long gone, replaced by a small development called Azusa Heritage, which has a Facebook page containing even more historical illustrations.

Some of the photos show a retaining wall, which remains, though no longer faced with stone. Notice the two pillars on either side of the stairs. I think a reconstructed version of these pillars might be visible in Google Street view:


GSV

This is at Cerritos and 6th in Azusa
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