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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E9H_power-plant-no-1_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
Power Plant No. 1. First Los Angeles Aqueduct. Some sections of the original Los Angeles Aqueduct, completed 1913, are still in use. During six years, 100,000 laborers built the 233-mile-long series of canals, pipelines and tunnels that make up th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DWG_american-bison_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
American Bison. . . This herd traces its roots to 1962, when Walt Disney donated a herd of American Bison to William S. Hart Regional Park. To discourage inbreeding, the County of Los Angeles has exchanged some of its animals with other facilitie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29RD_william-s-hart-park-and-museum_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
William S. Hart Park and Museum is the former ranch and home of the world famous Western silent film actor and director, William S. Hart. Today, guests visiting the park may enjoy a vast picnic area, a live collection of farm animals, a herd of Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM290R_edison-house_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
This house was one of a group of cottages built by the Southern
California Edison Company to house employees in 1919 when the Edison substation in Newhall opened. The house was moved west of Saugus in 1925 when the new substation was completed, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28Q8_saugus-school-bell_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
The bell in the tower of this station was fabricated by the C.S. Bell Company of Hillsboro, Ohio. It weighs approximately 400 pounds and measures 30 inches in diameter at the base. The bell originally hung in the belfry of Saugus Elementary School…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28KT_end-of-an-era_Santa-Clarita-CA.html
Near where you are now standing, silent film comic Charlie Chaplin,
with Paulette Goddard at his side, appeared in the final scene of the epic comedy Modern Times. The film was released on February 5,
1936, nearly ten years into the talkie era, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYV7_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/HMYV6_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/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/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…