Devil's Gate Dam, La Cañada Flintridge

Description: Close-up view of the downstream face of the Devil's Gate Dam. A road connecting La Cañada and Pasadena spans the top of the dam. The tops of cars parked on the dam are barely visible and one man is standing next to the concrete wall along the edge of the dam roadway.
The Devil's Gate Dam was the first flood control dam constructed in Los Angeles County. Designed by the flood engineers from the Los Angeles County Flood Control District and completed in 1920 Bent Brothers company, it formed the Hahamongna flood basin. The dam is located in La Cañada Flintridge at Devil's Gorge, the narrowest point on the Arroyo Seco. The Arroyo Seco is a seasonal river and watershed that begins at Red Box Saddle near Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains and ends at the confluence with the Los Angeles River near Elysian Park, north of Downtown Los Angeles.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Devil's Gate Dam

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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