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The Mirror Building also called the Butterfield Overland Mail Company Los Angeles Building was a large brick building in Los Angeles built by Butterfield Overland Mail Company built in 1858. The Mirror Building was designated a California Historic Landmark (No.744) on July 5, 1960. The Mirror Building had business offices and housing space for ...
Bud Hurlbut (Wendell "Bud" Hurlbut 1918-Jan. 5, 2011) [62] [63] [64] of Hurlbut Amusement Company constructed Calico Mine Train which opened in 1960 on Walter Knott's property at a cost of $1.5 Million as a concession, and paid Walt a portion of ticket sales. When Walt visited Bud during construction he asked "Do you know what you are doing?"
NO. 188 BUTTERFIELD STAGE STATION - Site of Butterfield Stage Station where mail was delivered and horses changed. The first stage carrying overland mail left Tipton, Missouri on September 15, 1858 and, passing through Temescal, arrived in Los Angeles October 7, 1858.
The Cahuenga stop was between San Fernando Mission station and Los Angeles and the junction point between divisions one and two of the route . The Butterfield Overland Mail in California was created by the United States Congress on March 3, 1857, and operated until June 30, 1861.
Warner's Ranch, near Warner Springs, California, was notable as a way station for large numbers of emigrants on the Southern Emigrant Trail from 1849 to 1861, as it was a stop on both the Gila River Trail and the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line (1859-1861). It was also operated as a pioneering cattle ranch.
He stated “Wells Fargo may have run a ‘trunk route’ off the Butterfield [Trail] in LA [Los Angeles] but it was NOT Butterfield per se.” [9] The line was very expensive and cost $3,500,000 to build and maintain. [10] Some of the money was borrowed from the banks of express companies such as Adams Express and Wells, Fargo & Co. Express.
Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach stations — in use across the American West from 1857 to 1861. Pages in category "Butterfield Overland Mail stations" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total.
Castle & Cooke, Inc., is a Los Angeles-based company that was once part of the Big Five companies in territorial Hawaii.The company at one time did most of its business in agriculture, including becoming, through mergers with the modern Dole Food Company, the world's largest producer of fruits and vegetables. [1]