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Newhall is the southernmost and oldest community in the city of Santa Clarita, California. Prior to the 1987 consolidation of Canyon Country , Saugus , Newhall, and Valencia into the city of Santa Clarita, it was an unincorporated area .
William S. Hart Museum - a satellite of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The museum features an extensive collection of early 20th century cowboy paraphernalia and indigenous American artifacts. Santa Clarita History Center - a history museum and the headquarters of the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society.
Henry Mayo Newhall (May 13, 1825 – March 13, 1882) was an American businessman whose extensive land holdings became the Southern California communities of Newhall, Saugus and Valencia, and the city of Santa Clarita.
The Newhall Land and Farming Company is a land management company based in Valencia which is part of Santa Clarita, United States. The company is responsible for the master community planning of Valencia and previously developed other areas such as Canyon Country and Newhall which together with Saugus and Valencia merged creating the city of ...
Newhall Pass is a low mountain pass in Los Angeles County, California. Historically called Fremont Pass and San Fernando Pass , with Beale's Cut , it separates the Santa Susana Mountains from the San Gabriel Mountains .
The Newhall incident, also called the Newhall massacre, was a shootout on April 5–6, 1970, in Valencia, California, United States, [a] between two heavily armed criminals and four officers of the California Highway Patrol (CHP).
The Pioneer Oil Refinery was the first successful oil refinery in California, built in 1876 off Pine Street in Newhall, Santa Clarita, California. The Pioneer Oil Refinery was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.172) on March 6, 1935. Pioneer Oil Refinery is the oldest existing refinery in the world.
In 1910 the 435 ft (133 m) Newhall Auto Tunnel was built a quarter-mile northwest of Beale's Cut. The tunnel was 17.5 ft (5.3 m) wide and two-way traffic through it was slow. The California Division of Highways decided to replace the tunnel; in July 1938 work started to remove the rock above the tunnel to create a four-lane highway.