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The Second Los Angeles Aqueduct Cascades near Sylmar, California. The Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley are spread across the Valley from Chatsworth in the northwest to Studio City in the southeast, and from the City of Calabasas in the southwest to Tujunga and La Crescenta in the northeast.
They are believed to have been grown from cuttings taken from the Spanish Colonial c. 1800 planted olive orchard trees at the Mission San Fernando Rey de España across the Valley. [2] When the site was designated a Historic-Cultural Monument in 1967, there were 76 olive trees along several blocks of western of Lassen Street.
The Stonehurst Historic Preservation Overlay Zone is located in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles, in the northeastern San Fernando Valley. [1] It is a city-designated Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ). [2]
Landmarks on the National Register of Historic Places located within the San Fernando Valley — in Los Angeles County, southern California. Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in the San Fernando Valley"
The San Fernando Valley Historical Society has a Museum about the Valley's history, housed in the landmark Andres Pico Adobe. The museum offers vintage room settings of the era, antique and artifact displays, and period gardens. [3] The museum is located near the Mission San Fernando Rey de España in Mission Hills, California. [4] [5]
1880 manuscript map of the western San Fernando Valley, with the stage route from Rancho Los Encinos to Santa Susana Pass (upper left) highlighted. The precipitous portion of the route on the San Fernando Valley side was called the Devil's Slide; horses were usually blindfolded and chains were used to augment brakes on the steep descent.
In 1962, the City of Los Angeles included the Pico Adobe and the Leonis Adobe in its first group of Cultural-Historic Monuments. As of 2007, there were over 850 such monuments, and the Pico Adobe is designated as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #7. [7] In 1966, the adobe was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
Shadow Ranch is a historic ranch house, built from 1869-1872 using adobe and redwood lumber, on the original Workman Ranch in the western San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. For much of the 20th century it was in Canoga Park , but it is now within the boundaries of the West Hills community.