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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQDC_this-fountain_Los-Angeles-CA.html
A replica of one in Cordoba, Spain; was built around 1812-1814 and was part of the water system in San Fernando Mission garden.
100 years later this garden was the property of Mr. Leslie C. Brand, who donated a part of it to Los Angeles for a p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLP3_award-of-excellence-ktla-tv_Los-Angeles-CA.html
Award of Excellence KTLA-TVThe first television station west of the Mississippi, KTLA-5 has been a part of Los Angeles broadcasting since January 22, 1947.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLP0_the-hollywood-reporter_Los-Angeles-CA.html
The first entertainment trade paperfounded in Hollywood, CaliforniaSeptember 3, 1930
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLOU_angels-flight_Los-Angeles-CA.html
Built in 1901 by Colonel J. W. Eddy, lawyer, engineer, and friend of President Lincoln, Angel's Flight is said to be the world's shortest incorporated railway. The counterbalanced cars, controlled by cables, travel a 33 percent grade for 315 feet.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLIC_william-mulholland_Los-Angeles-CA.html
A penniless Irish immigrant boy who rose by the force of his industry, intelligence, integrity and intrepidity to be a sturdy American citizen, a self-educated engineering genius, a whole-hearted humanitarian, the father of the city's water system…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML8M_oak-of-the-golden-dream_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
In Placeritas Canyon, March 1842, Francisco Lopez Y Arballo, while gathering wild onions from around an old oak, discovered gold particles clinging to the roots of the bulbs. It is estimated that $80,000 in gold was discovered as a result of this …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML2U_hollywoodlands-granite-retaining-walls-and-interconnecting-granite-stairs_Los-Angeles-CA.html
Hollywoodland's GraniteRetaining Walls andInterconnecting GraniteStairs
Built 1923 Declared 1991
Historic-Cultural Monument No. 535
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKWP_site-of-the-first-japanese-american-farm-on-the-palos-verdes-peninsula_Rancho-Palos-Verdes-CA.html
This site was designated a Point of Historical Interest at a meeting in regular session on May 1, 1992 in Sacramento. It particularly honors Kumekichi Ishibashi, who built the first Japanese-American farmhouse in 1906. He was born in Japan and cam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKKR_the-ridge-route_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
The super highway of its day when opened in 1915. The Ridge Route, California's first mountain highway, has been credited by some (for better or worse) as saving the state from being divided into two separate states. Constructed, graded, and paved…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKHU_mentryville_Stevenson-Ranch-CA.html
Mentryville, named after Charles Alexander Mentry, who drilled California's first successful commercial oil well in 1876, was one of the first oil towns in the state. Mentry's restored home, barn and Felton School remain on the site where the Cali…