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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E55_charlie-chaplins-the-kid_Los-Angeles-CA.html
Charlie Chaplin's The Kid. Reminiscing. The heart-tugging reunion in The Kid [1921] played between Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp and his "adopted" son [Jackie Coogan] remains one of the most emotionally charged scenes in all of film his…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B1J_naval-and-marine-corps-reserve-center_Los-Angeles-CA.html
Designed as the largest enclosed structure without columns in the world by noted California architects Robert Clements & Associates, this Art Deco building, constructed between 1938 and 1941 by the WPA, is the largest and second-oldest Navy Reserv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B1G_first-jewish-site-in-los-angeles_Los-Angeles-CA.html
The Hebrew Benevolent Society of Los Angeles (1854), first charitable organization in the city, acquired this site from the city council by deed of April 9, 1855. This purchase of a sacred burial ground represented the first organized community ef…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2AYF_plaza-substation_Los-Angeles-CA.html
The largest and most significant of the fourteen substations in the city, this brick power-transforming plant was built by the Los Angeles Railway Company to convert electricity from alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) so as to provide…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29VA_mother-ditch-and-the-history-slugs_Los-Angeles-CA.html
All California State Parks must have either unique physical or historical assets. In 2000, the fate of this State Park hung partially on the question of whether physical traces of history could really be found here. The game-changing evidence was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29B5_historical-site_Los-Angeles-CA.html
This block is the site of:
First brick school house in Los Angeles
known as School No. 1, built 1854-1855
Butterfield Overland Mail Company office
and corral 1858-1861
Office of U.S. Quartermaster 1861
Corral for camels from Fort Tejon 1861…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28RX_route-of-the-settlers-of-los-angeles_Los-Angeles-CA.html
On February 2, 1781, a company of settlers recruited in the states of Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico, began a historic journey from Los Alamos, Sonora. These were Los Pobladores, whose mission was the founding of El Pueblo de Nuestra Se�ora l…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QD_christopher-columbus_Los-Angeles-CA.html
Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451; Died May 20, 1506, at the age of 55, in Valladolid, Spain; Sailed to the New World under the coat of arms of Castile and Aragon; Landed October 12, 1492 at the isle of San Salvador in the West Indies; Made three addi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27G9_the-lindbergh-beacon_Los-Angeles-CA.html
The beacon on top of the Los Angeles City Hall was turned on by President Calvin Coolidge from the White House during the city hall dedication ceremonies April 26, 1928. The light was gratefully dedicated to Charles A. Lindbergh for his contributi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24OH_in-memory-of-our-ancestors_Los-Angeles-CA.html
In memory of our ancestors, the Gabrieleños, who inhabited the Pueblo of Los Angeles, and called it Yangna. They lived in harmony with Mother Earth. May they now be in peace in the spiritual world.