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After he left the Army, Carson became a trader in Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory, and south into Mexico.. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1853. [1]In 1854, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors gave Carson and William T.B. Sanford a contract to build a new wagon road alignment of the Stockton – Los Angeles Road through the San Fernando Pass section of the Stockton – Los ...
Carson was named after George Henry Carson, who married a daughter of the Dominguez family in 1857 and managed the rancho. The first oil drilling took place in 1921 at Dominguez Hill, on the northwest side of the Rancho San Pedro (also called Rancho Domínguez), site of the famous battle during the Mexican–American War called the Battle of ...
George Carson (footballer) (born 1925), Scottish footballer George Carson (trade unionist) (1848–1921), Scottish trade unionist and politician George Henry Carson (1832–1901), merchant, road builder and city council member in Los Angeles, California
Pages in category "Carson, California" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. ... Carson station (Los Angeles Metro) George Henry Carson ...
A Kit Carson monument obelisk (1885) stands at the Santa Fe, New Mexico federal building park. The Kit Carson marker of bronze, dedicated to his 1844 trip, is in Carson Pass, California. A 1913 statue of Kit Carson stands at Trinidad, Colorado's Kit Carson Park. In Denver, a statue of a mounted Kit Carson once atop the Mac Monnies Pioneer ...
Thomas Cowie and George Fowler were sent to Rancho Sotoyome (near modern-day Healdsburg) to pick up a cache of gunpowder from Moses Carson, brother of Frémont's scout. [ 92 ] 20 Jun 1846
Enrollment came chiefly from the Hacienda along with some children from nearby ranches. One of the oldest buildings in the district is the Carson-Perham Adobe, built between 1848 and 1850 by Mexican miners, and later the home of George Carson, the mine company bookkeeper, postmaster, telegraph operator, and Wells Fargo agent.
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.