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| | Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms - Map 18 Curator's Notes |
 | | Although the city of Los Angeles (colored white on Map "B") is, by far, the most populous place in the region, with 3,695,000 people in 2000, the metropolitan area is actually a collection of communities, large and small, scattered over thousands of square miles. |
 | | The original pueblo of Los Angeles-what is now downtown Los Angeles, appearing on the map as a dense knot of freeways south of Glendale-was founded in 1781. |
 | | Word of the agricultural potential of the Los Angeles Basin spurred a land boom, and between 1880 and 1890, the city's population grew from 11,000 to 50,000. |
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