Port Ballona, California
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Port Ballona is an archaic place name for an area near the center of
Port Ballona consisted of the current Del Rey Lagoon Park but conceptually also included the current Ballona Wetlands State Ecological Reserve alongside the estuarine river Ballona Creek, which flowed into and alongside the marsh within earthen levees built of soft-bottomed wetland soil.[1] While these plans never came to fruition, and the area remains a primarily residential neighborhood, the wetlands immediately to the north were eventually developed into Marina del Rey, North America's largest man-made small-craft harbor.
History
In 1839, the Mexican government granted the Machados and Talamantes families title to Rancho La Ballona.[2][3][4]
In 1857,
The Great Flood of 1862 turned the Port and the land around it into a swamp for six months.[7][8]
In 1863,
Port Ballona rail depot was built at the port and serviced by the
Sherman and Clark renamed the port and land around the port to
Port Ballona
In the 1880s and 1890s, parts of Venice, Playa Vista, Culver City, and Mar Vista were also part of Port Ballona.[13]
See also
References
- ^ delreync.org, Del Rey history Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ diseno Rancho La Ballona
- ^ 1900 USGS topographic map[permanent dead link]
- ^ Map of old Spanish and Mexican ranchos in Los Angeles County
- ^ Ranchos and the Politics of Land Claims Archived 2016-01-29 at the Wayback Machine by Karen Clay and Werner Troesken
- ^ "lacwrt.org, LA Civel War, Camp Latham, California, Brig. Gen. George Wright, USA, by D J "Duke"Dukesherer, Sr". Archived from the original on 2011-01-24. Retrieved 2014-08-11.
- ^ William H. Brewer, Up and down California in 1860-1864, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1930, p. 243 Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ "Tips for Surviving a Mega-Disaster". NPR.org.
- ^ Mar Vista Historical Society
- ^ wikimapia.org, Amtrak Redondo Junction Maintenance Facility
- ^ erha.org Los Angeles Pacific Corporate Histories
- ^ delreync.org, Del Rey Neighborhood Council, Marina Del Rey History Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Mar Vista Historical Society