FLASH FROM THE PAST
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In July, 1886, a spark from a passing train set off a wildfire that burned 10,000 acres of farmland stretching from La Puente to Covina. The fire helped put an end to a boom town in the area called Vineland, but in the same location eight years later the community of Baldwin Park was established.
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