Industry, CA

Industry is a city in the San Gabriel Valley in eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. The 2020 census counted 67,000 residents. Industry was incorporated on June 18, 1957, and has become the economic hub for the San Gabriel Valley. In 1841, William and Nicolasa Workman, who emigrated from Mexico with John Rowland and others, received a land grant for Rancho La Puente from the governor of Alta California, Juan Bautista Alvarado. The property is entered on the National Register of Historic Places. The city's zoning is primarily devoted to business: 92% is industrial, 8% is commercial.

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The few residences in the city either existed before incorporation, are on properties adjacent to either Industry Hills Golf Club, Industry Hills Recreation Center or in the small neighborhood adjacent to City Hall. The through line in Industry is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Industry makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today.