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Former L.A. County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn designed a new seal, which was drawn by Millard Sheets, and adopted by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on January 2, 1957, effective March 1, 1957. It included an image of Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit trees, and the symbols of a cross and oil derricks.
Los Angeles County was one of the original counties established at the time of statehood. The eastern part of the original county was set aside in 1853 as San Bernardino County . In 1866 Kern County was established with land that had previously been assigned to Tulare and Los Angeles Counties.
The Seal of the City of Los Angeles is, since 1905, the official seal of the City of Los Angeles, a city located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. The escutcheon is encircled by the legal name of the city (City of Los Angeles) and year founded (1781). It was adopted on March 27, 1905, via Ordinance 10,834.
The three colors on the flag represent olive trees (green), orange groves (gold) and vineyards (red). [1] They also symbolize the history of the city, with gold and red representing Spain, the country who first colonized the city and green and red representing Mexico, who took over when New Spain achieved independence. [2]
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.
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.
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,663,345 residents estimated in 2023. Its population is greater than that of 40 individual U.S. states .
April 2, 1987 (655 W. Jefferson Blvd. University Park: Landmark large-event venue; headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners: 4: Aloha Apartment Hotel