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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.
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.
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 .
Years in Los Angeles County, California (25 C) Pages in category "History of Los Angeles County, California" The following 185 pages are in this category, out of 185 total.
During the Gold Rush years in northern California, Los Angeles became known as the "Queen of the Cow Counties" for its role in supplying beef and other foodstuffs to hungry miners in the north. Among the cow counties, Los Angeles County had the largest herds in the state followed closely by Santa Barbara and Monterey Counties. [50]
The ranchos of Los Angeles County were large-scale land grants made by the governments of Spain and Mexico between 1784 and July 7, 1846, to private individuals within the current boundary lines (last adjusted in 1919) of Los Angeles County in California, United States.
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.