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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.
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"
San Fernando Line; San Fernando Pass; San Fernando Pioneer Memorial Cemetery; San Fernando Valley Historical Society; Santa Susana Field Laboratory; Santa Susana Pass; Old Santa Susana Stage Road; Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park; Joseph Francis Sartori; Saway-yanga, California; Sepulveda Basin; Sesnon Fire; Shadow Ranch; Moses Sherman ...
The monument site now looks like a hole in the ground with walls of vitrified limestone and brick. The pit measures about fifteen feet deep and six and a half feet across. The kiln was in use during early California history (Spanish/Mission and Mexican periods). The area rich with oak trees and lime deposits was ideal for kiln operation ...
Map of the San Fernando Valley in 1880 by William Hammond Hall. A 56,000-acre (227 km 2) parcel of De Celis's property north of the great furrow was purchased in 1874 by state senator Charles Maclay of Santa Clara and his partner, George K. Porter of San Francisco. Porter's cousin Benjamin F. Porter subsequently purchased portions of Porter and ...
The Sentous Block or Sentous Building (19th c., demolished late 1950s) was located at 615-9 N Main St., with a back entrance on 616-620 North Spring St. (previously called Upper Main St., then San Fernando St.). Designed in 1886 by Burgess J. Reeve. Louis Sentous was a French pioneer in the early days of Los Angeles. [32]
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.