Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
February – Oil discovered within Los Angeles City limits. [1] 1893 Bradbury Building constructed. [1] July 4 – Mount Lowe Railway opens north of Pasadena. La Grande Station c. 1911. July 29 – La Grande StationLa Grande Station railway opens. 1894 – Fiesta de Los Angeles begins. [1] 1895 Highland Park becomes part of the City of Los ...
History of Los Angeles (32 C, 408 P, 1 F) N. History of Nevada City, California (10 P) O. History of Oakland, California (11 C, 78 P) History of Oxnard, California (9 ...
Fletcher Bowron replaced Shaw as mayor in 1938 to preside over one of the more dynamic periods in the history of the city. His "Los Angeles Urban Reform Revival" brought major changes to the government of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures, c. 1940. In 1950, he appointed William H. Parker as chief of police. Parker pushed for more independence ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
View history; General ... Pages in category "Timelines of cities in California" ... Timeline of Long Beach, California; Timeline of Los Angeles; M.
"Cities within the County of Los Angeles" (PDF). Chief Executive Office - Los Angeles County "Census 2010: Table 3A — Total Population by Race (Hispanic exclusive) and Hispanic or Latino: 2010". California Department of Finance. Archived from the original (Excel) on November 24, 2011
The history of Los Angeles County, California includes the history of the Tovaangar; the pueblo, missions and ranchos of the Spanish-Mexican era; the histories of the various incorporated cities and unincorporated areas within the borders; and the story of the government of Los Angeles County.
Map of water storage and delivery facilities as well as major rivers and cities in the state of California. The terminus of the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct , near Sylmar . The only way California can support its extensive population and agriculture is to store water in numerous reservoirs and use pipes, tunnels, pumps and canals to distribute ...