When was los angeles settled

Their destination is Loreto, Baja California. March 12, A smallpox outbreak forces some of the party to recuperate in Loreto while healthier members proceed up the Baja coastline to Bahia de San Luis and then to San Diego. The 12th settler, having been delayed in Baja California due to illness from smallpox, is diverted to the Presidio in Santa Barbara upon his eventual arrival in Alta California in September 4, The combined group of settlers, 11 families, arrive at their final destination, after traveling almost 1, miles.

Rivera Y Moncada achieves his recruiting goal for soldiers but has only signs up 14 settlers. The first contingent of settlers and their families and an escort of 17 soldiers set out from Alamos, Sinaloa, by sea. A smallpox outbreak forces some of the party to recuperate in Loreto while healthier members proceed up the Baja coastline to Bahia de San Luis and then to San Diego.

The final party of settlers, minus one, arrives at the Mission San Gabriel Arcangel. The combined group of settlers, 11 families, arrive at their final destination, after traveling almost 1, miles. However like the rest of the world Los Angeles suffered during the depression of the s.

However, all did not go smoothly in Los Angeles in the 20th century. In the summer of , there were riots called the Zoot Suit riots in which Mexicans were attacked. Then in Los Angeles was again rocked by riots.

On 11 August police stopped and questioned an African American. In the ensuing riots, 34 people were killed. In 4 police officers beat an African American driver named Rodney King. However, at their trial, the officers were acquitted. The result was 3 days of rioting during which left 58 people were killed.

In Los Angeles was struck by an earthquake. It measured 6. The earthquake killed 57 people and injured thousands. It also caused billions of dollars of damage. Yet Los Angeles soon recovered. Many famous buildings were erected in Los Angeles in the late 20th century and early 21st. Watts Towers was built in by Simon Rodia.

Theme Building was erected in US Bank Tower was built in The first light rail line opened in Meanwhile in the late 20th century manufacturing industry in Los Angeles declined. However, service industries boomed.

Tourism is now a flourishing industry in Los Angeles. A Museum of Tolerance opened in The county as a whole, however, benefited. The build-up had created several local irrigation districts and numerous civic improvements.

In addition, the Los Angeles population had increased from about 11, in to about 60, in In the first salable petroleum in California was the oil found at Pico Canyon near San Fernando. But the real boom began in the s, when Edward L. Los Angeles became a center of oil production in the early 20th Century.

By the area had derricks, and in the area near Santa Monica Boulevard and Vermont Avenue was an unruly oil shantytown. Drilling activity in the county reached new heights in the s when major finds were made in Whittier, Montebello, Compton, Torrance, and Inglewood. These three huge fields upset national oil prices and glutted existing storage facilities. By the turn of the century almost 1, oil wells operated throughout Los Angeles.

Oil production has continued down to the present throughout the Los Angeles Basin; between and some 1, wells pumped million barrels of oil from these pumps. In the early s, agriculture became an important part of the economy. Other crops grown in the County included alfalfa, apricots, asparagus, barley, hay, beans, beets, cabbage, citrus, corn, lettuce, melons, peaches, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, and walnuts. The agricultural output led to other industries such as canning companies, a fruit growers association, and fruit preservers.

The agricultural land gave way to development following World War II. The San Pedro harbor became operational in the late s and became the principal harbor for the trade in the county. The first steamer to visit San Pedro was the Goldhunter in The construction of a railroad from Los Angeles to the harbor in gave a fresh impetus to the development of agricultural resources in the county.

Later in the Long Beach harbor was established and the port at San Pedro was also added to give Los Angeles a position in the international trade market. In one adobe hut stood on the site that became Hollywood. By the motion picture industry was in full swing. In the s, the advent of television led to the opening of numerous television stations. Movie attendance fell to half its previous level during this time as audiences stayed home to be entertained in their own living rooms.

By the early s the television and movie industries became interdependent with much crossover from one medium to the other.

Today, each medium has found its niche. The Hollywood film has retained its position as the ultimate entertainment, but television has become the major disseminator of popular culture. Los Angeles has remained firmly in charge of American image-making. The Depression and the Midwestern drought of the s brought thousands of people to California looking for jobs. In order to sustain future growth, the County needed new sources of water.

Legitimate concerns about water supply were exploited to gain backing for a huge engineering and legal effort to bring more water to the city and allow more development. Approximately miles northeast of Los Angeles in Inyo County, near the Nevada state line, a long slender desert region known as the Owens Valley had the Owens River, a permanent stream of fresh water fed by the melted snows of the eastern Sierra Nevadas. Sometime between and , Los Angeles Times founder Harrison Gray Otis and his son-in-law successor, Harry Chandler, engaged in successful efforts at buying up cheap land on the northern outskirts of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley.

Lippencott, of the United States Reclamation Service. Lippencott performed water surveys in the Owens Valley for the Reclamation Service while secretly receiving a salary from the City of Los Angeles. Eden then resigned from the Reclamation Service, took a job with the Los Angeles Water Department as assistant to Mulholland, and turned over the Reclamation Service maps, field surveys and stream measurements to the city.