Rosemead Wedding

Rosemead is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 53,505.

Prior to the arrival of the Spanish, the area around Rosemead was populated by Amerindians of the Tongva or Gabrielino ethnic group. In 1771, the Spanish founded the first San Gabriel mission in the area that is now known as Whittier Narrows on the border between Montebello and Rosemead. Due to flooding issues, the mission was moved to its present location in San Gabriel in 1775.

During the Spanish colonial period the area now covered by the City of Rosemead was part of the land administered by the San Gabriel Mission. After Mexican independence, the land was distributed to private citizens as part of the Mexican governments secularization act of 1834.