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*The first European to set eyes on San Pedro harbor was Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Barillo in 1542.
*Three hundred years later, rail lines were built to Los Angeles, and San Pedro evolved into a seaport and residential community. It was incorporated as an independent city in 1888, then annexed by Los Angeles in 1909 as a way to cash in on the port’s lucrative trade and commercial fishing industries.
*The shipping trade continues to dominate the economy but the fishing and canning businesses has been declining in recent decades.
*San Pedro’s population of 77,000 is a mix of Slavs, Serbs. Croatians, Portuguese, Italians, Greeks, Britons and Latinos.
*In 1998, the average home price was $212,615.
