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The Great Fish Market, painted by Jan Brueghel the Elder. Fishing is a prehistoric practice dating back at least 70,000 years. Since the 16th century, fishing vessels have been able to cross oceans in pursuit of fish, and since the 19th century it has been possible to use larger vessels and in some cases process the fish on board.
List table of the properties and districts — listed on the California Historical Landmarks in Los Angeles County, Southern California. Note: Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Location of Los Angeles County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California, excluding the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena.
Present-day Baja California of Mexico was misrepresented in early maps as an island.This example c. 1650. Restored. The first European explorers, flying the flags of Spain and of England, sailed along the coast of California from the early 16th century to the mid-18th century, but no European settlements were established.
Rancho geography remains readily visible in this L.A. County map created the year before the establishment of neighboring Orange County (1888) Federal Writers' Project map of the ranchos of Los Angeles County (1937); appears to be in the same style as many American Guide Series maps so possibly produced but not used for Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
The Southern Pacific in Los Angeles 1873–1996. San Marino, California: Golden West Books & Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation. ISBN 0-87095-118-1. OCLC 49679842. Ripley, Vernette Snyder (March 1947). "The San Fernando Pass". The Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California. XXIX (1). Archived from the original on 5 March 2012.
212 S. Wilton Place is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #925. [8] 215 S. Wilton Place is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #568. [9] 220 S. Wilton Place is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #1005 [10] 245 S. Wilton Place is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #1032 [11]