The history of the San Fernando Valley from its exploration by the 1769 Portola expedition to the annexation of much of it by the City of Los Angeles...
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The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California. Situated northwards of the Los Angeles...
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The San Fernando Mission Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery located in the Mission Hills community of the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. The property...
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mission is the namesake of the nearby city of San Fernando and the San Fernando Valley. The mission was secularized in 1834 and returned to the Catholic...
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San Fernando (Spanish for "St. Ferdinand") is a general-law city in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, in the Los Angeles...
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The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as the 1971 Sylmar earthquake) occurred in the early morning of February 9 in the foothills of the San Gabriel...
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Isaac Newton Van Nuys (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
the entire southern portion of the San Fernando Valley, an area 15 miles long and 6 miles wide. With the approach of the Owens River aqueduct and the...
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of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley, California. It includes Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley...
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Charles Maclay (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
of San Fernando, California in the San Fernando Valley. Charles Maclay's heritage was Scots-Irish. He was the brother of Robert Samuel Maclay, a pioneer...
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Ventura Freeway at 20600 Ventura Boulevard, in the Chalk Hills of the western San Fernando Valley. The modernist style 2,865-seat facility opened in 1964...
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the reach of public transportation from the Downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood into the San Fernando Valley, to support land speculation and development...
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Von Sternberg House (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
Northridge, on a plot of 13 acres (5 hectares) in California's then-rural San Fernando Valley for the movie director Josef von Sternberg. The house was demolished...
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Santa Susana Pass (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
The Santa Susana Pass, originally Simi Pass, is a low mountain pass in the Simi Hills of Southern California, connecting the San Fernando Valley and Los...
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"research, collect and preserve the history, art and culture of the San Fernando Valley". The group was founded on July 4, 1943. The Society offers regular Andres...
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Shadow Ranch (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
and redwood lumber, on the original Workman Ranch in the western San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. For much of the 20th century it was in...
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Los Angeles, in the northeastern San Fernando Valley, California. It is near and also serves the City of San Fernando. San Fernando High School—SFHS—was...
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1994 Northridge earthquake (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
beneath the San Fernando Valley. Lasting approximately 8 seconds and achieving the largest peak ground acceleration of over 1.7 g, it was the largest...
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Spahn Ranch (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
side. Several hiking trails give access to extensive views of the San Fernando Valley. Spahn Movie Ranch is a setting in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)...
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Van Norman Dams (redirect from Lower San Fernando Dam)
The 1971 San Fernando earthquake significantly damaged the dams, resulting in evacuation of thousands of people from the San Fernando Valley immediately...
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Moses Sherman (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
property in areas such as the westside of Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood, California. He also served on the Los Angeles Water Board...
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) (category San Fernando Valley)
States San Fernando Valley History of the San Fernando Valley Rancho Providencia – First Movie Town 1912 Nestor Film Company – Valley ranch Providencia Ranch –...
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Lopez Adobe (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
San Fernando, California, is one of the two oldest private residences in the San Fernando Valley. Built in 1882 by early settlers of the San Fernando...
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Encino Oak Tree (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
individual trees List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley El Pino - a historic and cultural landmark of East Los Angeles...
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Valley Relics Museum is a museum located in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. The LA Weekly named the Valley Relics Museum one of its 2017 winners...
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Sun Valley, it passes through rock quarries and the Hansen Dam Recreation Area, one of the last remaining open spaces in the San Fernando Valley. North...
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Brighton Hall School (redirect from San Fernando Valley Professional School)
Brighton Hall, formerly known as San Fernando Valley Professional School, is a private school educating students from second to twelfth grade in Burbank...
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Los Angeles Aqueduct (redirect from Owens Valley aqueduct)
individuals – were a group of investors who bought land in the San Fernando Valley allegedly based on inside knowledge that the Los Angeles aqueduct would...
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Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
Cemetery Records History of Famous, Forgotten". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 2, 2021. Koontz, Giacinta Bradley. "History of Portal of the Folded Wings"...
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wishes in mind when the occasion came." On January 8, 1847, Frémont arrived at San Fernando. On January 10, the combined army of Commodore Robert F. Stockton...
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Leonis Adobe (category History of the San Fernando Valley)
Angeles County and one of the oldest surviving buildings in the San Fernando Valley, it was built in 1844 and was occupied by the wealthy rancher Miguel...
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