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Wilmington is a neighborhood in the South Bay and Harbor region of Los Angeles, California, [2] covering 9.14 square miles (23.7 km 2).. Featuring a heavy concentration of industry and the third-largest oil field in the continental United States, this neighborhood has a high percentage of Latino and foreign-born residents.
The LA Waterfront is a visitor-serving destination in the city of Los Angeles, funded and maintained by the Port of Los Angeles. [24] In 2009, the Los Angeles Harbor Commission approved the San Pedro Waterfront and Wilmington Waterfront development programs, under the LA Waterfront umbrella.
Banning House, also known as the General Phineas Banning Residence Museum, is a historic Greek Revival-Victorian home in the Wilmington section of Los Angeles, California. Built in 1863 by Phineas Banning near the original San Pedro Bay , it remained in the Banning family until 1925 and has been owned by the City of Los Angeles since 1927.
Harbor area, Los Angeles: Shoestring Annexation (Dec. 26, 1906) San Pedro Annexation (Aug. 28, 1909), Wilmington Annexation (Aug. 28, 1909) As defined by Mapping L.A. of the Los Angeles Times, the region, which includes the city of Los Angeles as well as other cities and unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, is a 193.09-square-mile area flanked by South Los Angeles or Los Angeles County ...
As many as 12,000 homes, businesses and other structures may have been destroyed in the wildfires raging in Los Angeles County, rendering entire communities ashen piles of rubble.. But here and ...
Phineas Banning (August 19, 1830 – March 8, 1885) was an American businessman, financier and entrepreneur.. Known as "The Father of the Port of Los Angeles," he was one of the founders of the town of Wilmington, in Los Angeles County, California, which was named for his birthplace.
Children play in the shadow of the Phillips 66 refinery facility in Wilmington. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) For more than 100 years, the Wilmington and Carson oil refineries have pumped out ...
The Los Angeles Zoo, also in sprawling, mountainous Griffith Park, was closed to the public on Wednesday, its website said, citing high winds. The zoo said it hoped to reopen to the public on ...