On March 14, 1928, the L.A. Times and national news outlets announced the first reports of the St. Francis Dam collapse.
The St. Francis Dam collapse is still remembered by Santa Clarita residents 97 years later as one of the most deadly civil ...
The Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society has announced that the St. Francis Dam Tour scheduled for Saturday, March 15 has ...
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St. Francis Dam disaster tour planned for March 12The public has the opportunity to walk the site of the March 12, 1928, St. Francis Dam disaster. At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 15, the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society is offering its ...
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California water wars: A century of wrangling over Los Angeles’s waterIt was the largest American civil engineering disaster of the century – a byproduct of western expansion and the struggle ...
March 12 of that same year, the St. Francis Dam (also designed and built by Mulholland) tragically collapsed, taking both 600 lives and the brilliant engineer’s reputation in one terrible night.
The Los Angeles Water Bureau piped water from the Owens Valley to fill the reservoir at the St. Francis Dam and gradually removed the Paiute from their ancestral territory.
In 1922, William Mulholland began building the St. Francis Dam to create a reservoir for the Los Angeles–Owens River aqueduct. To meet the growing water needs of Los Angeles, he decided to ...
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Blue Goose Bus Line was a Metro-East staple for transportationThe Blue Goose Bus Line, started by the East St. Louis & Suburban electric carline, connected Alton, Wood River, and more.
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