Devil's Lake, La Cañada Flintridge

Item Overview

Title

Devil's Lake, La Cañada Flintridge

Date Created

[between 1920-1939]

Date

1920/1939

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

View of Devil's Lake (Hahamongna Lake, Hahamongna Basin Watershed) with the San Gabriel Mountains visible in the distance. The lake was formed by the Devil's Gate Dam in 1920.
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

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

La Cañada Flintridge (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Lake Hahamongna (La Cañada Flintridge, Calif.)
Devil's Gate Dam (Calif.)