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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKHT_rancho-san-francisco_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
Approximately one-half mile south of this point was the adobe headquarters of Rancho San Francisco, originally built about 1804 as a granary of Mission San Fernando. The rancho was granted to Antonio de Valle in 1839. Here, in January 1850, Willia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKHS_st-francis-dam-disaster-site_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
The 185-foot concrete St. Francis Dam, part of the Los Angeles aqueduct system, stood 1½ miles north of this site. On March 12, 1928, the 185-foot high concrete dam collapsed just before midnight, sending 12½ billion gallons of water roaring dow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKHR_pioneer-oil-refinery_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
In 1875 the Star Oil Company, one of the predecessors of the Standard Oil Company of California, drilled its first Pico Canyon well, which yielded about one hundred barrels per day. The discovery resulted in the erection of the first commercial oi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKHP_lang-southern-pacific-station_Hamilton-CA.html
On September 5, 1876, Charles Crocker, President of the Southern Pacific Company, drove a gold spike here to complete his company's San Joaquin Valley Line, the first rail connection of Los Angeles with San Francisco and Transcontinental lines.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJKI_portal-of-the-folded-wing_Burbank-CA.html
Dedicated To The Honored Dead Of American Aviation OnThe 50th Anniversary Of Powered Flight, Dec. 17, 1953,By Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker USAF (Ret.)- - - - - - - - - - - - Beneath The Memorial tablets in this sacred portalrest the cremated remains of f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDBW_james-dean_Los-Angeles-CA.html
Key scenes from the classic motion picture "Rebel Without a Cause"were filmed at the Griffith Observatoryin Spring 1955. Although many movieshave been filmed at Griffith Observatory,"Rebel Without a Cause"was the first toportray the Observatory as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD8P_eternal-valley_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
In 1769 Spanish padres sent out by Father Junipero Serra recommended this property as a mission site. It became instead a farm and ranch for the San Fernando Mission.——————————A stage coa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD8N_oak-of-the-golden-dream_Lookout-Mountain-CA.html
In 1839, the Mexican Government granted toAntonio del Valle some 48,000 acres ofThe Santa Clarita Valley known as the Del Valle Rancho.
On March 9, 1842, Francisco Lopez y Arbello, the brother-in-law of Antonio del Valle, visited the Rancho. Wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD8B_lyons-station_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
This site was the location of a combination store, post office, telegraph office, tavern, and stage depot accommodating travelers during the Kern River gold rush in the early 1850s. A regular stop for Butterfield and other early California stage l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMD8A_last-horse-drawn-hearse-of-los-angeles-county_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
This vehicle was manufactured at about the same time the first internments were made in this cemetery - 1860.