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Burbank incorporated in Los Angeles County. San Fernando incorporated in Los Angeles County. 1912 – County of Los Angeles Public Library established. [1] 1913 Los Angeles Aqueduct completed. [33] La Brea Tar Pits excavation begins. [36] 1914 Southern Pacific's Central Station and Southwest Museum [1] open. "First ship via Panama Canal arrives ...
San Diego Chargers move to San Diego after one season in Los Angeles. San Diego harbor depth was increased to 42 feet (13 m) to allow stationing supercarriers in San Diego. USS Kitty Hawk was the first supercarrier based in San Diego. [39] 1962 – San Diego annexes Rancho Bernardo. 1963
San Diego, still little more than a village, was incorporated on March 27 as a city and was named the county seat of the newly established San Diego County. [21] The United States Census reported the population of the town as 650 in 1850 and 731 in 1860. [22] San Diego promptly got into financial trouble by overspending on a poorly designed jail.
In 1876 the Newhall railroad tunnel located 27 miles (43 km) north of Los Angeles between the town of San Fernando and Lyons Station Stagecoach Stop (now Newhall) was completed, providing the final link from San Francisco to Los Angeles for the railroad. The 6,940-foot-long railroad tunnel (2,115.3 m) took a year and a half to complete.
The first part of this phase, from I-805 to Convoy Street, began construction in December 1986. [38] It was dedicated at a community celebration on July 11, 1987, and was scheduled to open to traffic a few weeks later. [39] The first callboxes in San Diego County were installed on SR 52 near Convoy Street on June 20, 1988. [40]
The San Diego Electric Railway, founded by John D. Spreckels in 1892, was the major transit system in the San Diego area during that period. In the Los Angeles area, real estate tycoon Henry Huntington established both the Los Angeles Railway, also known as the Yellow Car system, and the above-mentioned Pacific Electric Red Car
List table of the properties and districts — listed on the California Historical Landmarks in Los Angeles County, Southern California. Note: Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Additional funding was provided by the Counties of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. The outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861 disrupted mail service along the Butterfield Overland Mail's southern stagecoach route from St. Louis, Missouri via El Paso, Fort Yuma and Los Angeles and on to San Francisco via the Tejon Pass, which had begun its ...