Woodland Hills, CA news and local guide

American ownership of the southern half of the valley began with Isaac Lankershim's San Fernando Farm Homestead Association in 1869, followed by James Boon Lankershim and Isaac Newton Van Nuys's Los Angeles Farm and Milling Company in 1873, and in 1910, in what was called the biggest land transaction ever recorded in Los Angeles County, by the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company syndicate of Harry Chandler, Hobart Johnstone Whitley, Moses Sherman and others. In 1922 Victor Girard Kleinberger bought 2,886 acres from Chandler's group and founded the town of Girard. He built roads, advertised in newspapers and planted 120,000 trees, and his 300 pepper trees arching over Canoga Avenue became a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1972. Around 1939 the area was described as a small business district on Ventura Boulevard at Topanga Canyon with a scattered farming population. Girard became part of Los Angeles and in 1945 took the name Woodland Hills. Sources Wikipedia: Woodland Hills, Los Angeles