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Today In SCV History: March 29, 1928 – St. Francis Dam Victim ‘The Little Cowboy’ Buried
On March 29, 1928, the body of a young boy who had remained unidentified in the makeshift Newhall morgue in the wake of the St. Francis Dam ...
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Today In SCV History: March 28, 1934 – Bouquet Canyon Reservoir Opening Ceremony
Friday, L.A. water officials gathered to take part in the opening ceremonies of the Bouquet Canyon Reservoir, which replaced ...
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Big Dams of the American West
After the St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928, engineers applied lessons learned to expansive dam projects in the American West. Beginning in the 1930s, large dams were built on important watersheds ...