• Homestead Museum
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
Search

The Homestead Blog

Creating advocates for history through the stories of greater Los Angeles.

Menu
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Economics
    • Agriculture
    • Commerce & Manufacturing
    • Labor
    • Oil Industry
    • Real Estate
    • Transportation & Infrastructure
  • Homestead Museum
    • Historic Preservation & Research
    • Staff & Events
  • House & Home
    • Food & Drink
    • Homes
    • Landscape & Gardens
  • Leisure/Entertainments
    • Film
    • Holidays & Celebrations
    • Sports
    • Music
    • Outdoors
    • Theater
  • People
    • Biographies
    • Workman & Temple Family
  • Society
    • Architecture & Decoration
    • Disasters
    • Education
    • Health & Medicine
    • Law & Crime
    • Places & Communities
    • Politics & Government
    • Race, Ethnicity, & Marginalized Groups
    • Religion & Beliefs
    • Women

Tag: Los Angeles Aqueduct history

  • Agriculture

Tres Hermanos Ranch Tour Postview: Some Early History of Harry Chandler (1864-1944), Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 4, 2025
Read More
  • Biographies

Joseph Scott (1867-1958): Devout English Emigrant to Fame and Fortune in Los Angeles, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 13, 2022February 14, 2022
Read More
  • Places & Communities

“One of the Most Extensive Projects in Water-Supply Engineering That Has Been Undertaken in This Country”: A Review of “Preliminary Work on the Los Angeles Aqueduct” from “The Engineering Record,” 8 February 1908

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 8, 2022February 9, 2022
Read More
  • Film

“Trail of the Red Herring”: The Purity of Water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct in “The Los Angeles Graphic” Magazine of 9 January 1915

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 8, 2022
Read More
  • Transportation & Infrastructure

“The Building Up of a Great Metropolitan Industrial Center”: A Bureau of Power and Light Pamphlet, Los Angeles, 11 October 1920

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 11, 2020January 4, 2021
Read More
  • Biographies

Portrait Gallery: Reginaldo F. del Valle, ca. 1870s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 20, 2020December 29, 2020
Read More
  • Biographies

“The Marvel of the Age in City Building”: Harrison Gray Otis on Los Angeles from Sunset Magazine, January 1910

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 20, 2020December 28, 2020
Read More

Recent Posts

  • “One of the Most Famous Trials in Orange County’s Court History”: An Orange County Sheriff’s Department Wanted Poster for Albert Gaines, 24 July 1926, Part Three
  • “One of the Most Brutal Murders Ever Committed Here”: An Orange County Sheriff’s Department Wanted Poster for Albert Gaines, 24 July 1926, Part Two
  • “One of the Most Brutal Murders Ever Committed Here”: An Orange County Sheriff’s Department Wanted Poster for Albert Gaines, 24 July 1926, Part One
  • From Point A to Point B With a Letter from Western Auto Supply Company, Los Angeles, 23 July 1927, Part One
  • “It Is Whether You Shall Be Governed By Yourself Or Be Misgoverned by Wowsers, Bounders and Numskulls”: The Debate About Prohibition in the Presidential Campaign, July 1928

Subscribe to our blog

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 518 other subscribers

Facebook

Facebook

Archives

Hours & Info

15415 E Don Julian Road
City of Industry, CA 91745
1-626-968-8492
Public Tours (Fri.-Sun., except 4th weekend)
Workman House:
1:00 & 3:00 p.m.
La Casa Nueva:
2:00 & 4:00 p.m.

Get Directions

Add Waypoint
Route Options
×

Subscribe to our Blog

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

  • Homestead Museum
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
Powered by WordPress.com.
×
Loading Comments...