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Tag: Water supply Los Angeles region history

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“A Condensed and Systematic Review”: Local Conditions in State Engineer William Hammond Hall’s “Irrigation in Southern California,” 1888, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 6, 2022
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  • Agriculture

“A Condensed and Systematic Review”: Local Conditions in State Engineer William Hammond Hall’s “Irrigation in Southern California,” 1888, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 5, 2022
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“No Parallel in History”: The Los Angeles Aqueduct in “Scientific American,” 25 May 1912

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 25, 2021
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  • Disasters

“Water Has A Combined Power for Good or Evil”: The Report of J.W. Reagan, Los Angeles County Flood Control District, 2 January 1917

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 2, 2021March 5, 2024
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Recent Posts

  • “Like a Garden Spot in the Vast Plain”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part Three
  • “Where the Visitor is Made to Feel Perfectly at Home”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part Two
  • “In The Old But Noted City, With Its Unsurpassed Almost Tropical Climate”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part One
  • “All the Dignity of Former Days Has Departed, Leaving Tumbling Tombs and Caving Crypts to the Small Sympathy of Beast and Insect”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Five
  • “Old Calvary Has Become More Valuable to the Living Than to the Dead, And the March of Civilization is Soon to Overwhelm It”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Four

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