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Angeles Pacific Railroad, now under Southern Pacific control, began surveying a route over the Cahuenga Pass to the Valley in 1909. By 1912, after the syndicate paid a $ 150,000 bonus to help with construction, the Pacific Electric Railway completed the new San Fernando Valley Line,
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December 1902, extending from downtown at 4th & Broadway to the new resort, and was soon added to the famous “Balloon Route” excursion. Many visitors bought lots and built homes along the beach front.
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Westminster Hotel until the late 1920s, after which he moved into an apartment suite on Rampart Boulevard near 6th. He also had a house on Bay Island, Newport Beach, where he died September 9, 1932.
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He was involved with moving the territorial capitol to Phoenix, and with his business associate, attorney M.E. Collins, he donated 10 acres of property for the new territorial capitol building in 1889.
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could be acquired and transported to Los Angeles. In 1904, the Board of Water Commissioners was notified of the purchases of water rights in the Owens Valley for the proposed aqueduct to Los Angeles.
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Sherman left an estate of several million dollars, leaving sizable sums to the University of Southern California, Pomona College, the California Institute of Technology and Grinnell College, Iowa.
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a 20-mile-long (32 km) extension of the PE, which ran from Hollywood to the developments of the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company. An additional line was extended to San Fernando in 1913.
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1877:. Corona del Mar, CA: The Sherman Foundation.
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2047:Santa Monica: A City on the Edge
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1922:Karhl, William L. (1983).
1812:Easlon, Steven L. (1973).
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371:The First Interurban Lines
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1838:Fogelson, Robert (1967).
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1917:: Pacific Rim Research.
1793:Crump, Spencer (1977).
753:William Randolph Hearst
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2152:History of Los Angeles
2109:Thorpe, James (1994).
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1967:Mallory, Mary (2011).
1860:Gierach, Ryan (2003).
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2025:History of Hollywood
1948:Loomis, Jan (2012).
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2088:978-0-87095-129-9
2079:Huntington Tracks
1804:978-0-87046-047-0
1679:, p. 155-56.
837:After the end of
559:Hobart J. Whitley
557:, Otto F. Brant,
544:Shakespeare Beach
432:Isaias W. Hellman
326:Rosedale Cemetery
285:Santa Fe Railroad
249:Santa Fe Railroad
222:Salt River Valley
216:Arizona - Phoenix
194:Arizona Territory
153:Arizona Territory
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1818:Anaheim, CA
1786:Los Angeles
1665:Coscia 2012
1631:Coscia 2012
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1472:Nadeau 1997
1369:Loomis 2012
1303:Palmer 1938
1291:Palmer 1938
1157:Loomis 2012
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1106:SOCAL FOCUS
887:Sherman Way
839:World War I
714:Owens River
710:Inyo Valley
695:Owens River
670:Sherman Way
659:Culver City
636:Tejon Ranch
491:Los Angeles
328:; south on
289:Los Angeles
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109:Los Angeles
55:West Rupert
2131:Categories
1941:Tucson, AZ
1448:Crowe 1957
1417:Crowe 1957
1265:2021-10-06
702:Fred Eaton
674:Owensmouth
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271:, c. 1892.
131:Early life
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606:Brentwood
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563:Hollywood
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