Over the past five years now I have traveled throughout the
State with a new perspective. Not like I used to… before I
would fly through little burgs and towns without taking a second
look. I have always traveled for work but never took the time to
“see” where I was going. I would hit a town do my work
and go back to the hotel and sit in my room clicking the clicker
until the wee hours of the morning.
Now, every new town I pass through is an awakening. I thrive on
the new treasures I see… monuments I have whizzed by a
hundred times in my life are now new nuggets of knowledge, vista
points I passed without a blink are postcard images burned in my
mind, and side streets of towns are secret treasures that only non
tourists find. Geocaching has made me stop and smell the roses.
Hopefully, this little puzzle will help enlighten you on the
County of Los Angeles and maybe make you “stop and smell the
roses” too.
N 34° 16.ABC
A = California Registered Historical Marker
No. 65(A) is “The Cascades”. The inscription
says: “This is the terminus of the Los Angeles-Owens River
Aqueduct, which brings water 338 miles from the eastern slopes of
the Sierra Nevada to the City of Los Angeles. Begun in 1905, the
great aqueduct was completed November 5, 1913. The Mono Craters
Tunnel project, completed in 1940, extended the system 27 miles to
its present northernmost intake near Tioga Pass.
B = At (B),752 square miles, Los
Angeles County is larger than combined areas of the states of Rhode
Island and Delaware.
C = The La Brea Tar Pits are a piece of urban
Los Angeles and located near the Miracle Mile district. The La Brea
Tar Pits were first discovered and written about by the Portola
expedition, a group of Spanish explorers led by Gaspar de Portola
in 17(C)9.
W 118° 37.DEF
D = The California Institute of Technology
(Caltech) is a private research university located in Pasadena and
was established in 189(D). Caltech has six academic
divisions with a strong emphasis on science and
engineering.
E = Mount Wilson has a zip code in Los
Angeles County of 9102(E).
F = Los Angeles County was one of the
original counties of California, created at the time of statehood
in 185(F). The county’s large area included parts of
what is now Kern County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County
and Orange County.
Some other interesting tidbits about Los Angeles
County:
Los Angeles County is home to over a quarter of all
California residents.
Los Angeles County is home to 88 incorporated cities and many
unincorporated areas.
The HOLLYWOOD sign was first erected in 1923 and originally
read “HOLLYWOODLAND” with a purpose to advertise a new
housing development above the Hollywood district of Los
Angeles.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the largest
encyclopedic museum west of Chicago and attracts nearly one million
visitors annually.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on
Geochecker.com.
I would like to thank GeoCraig for
being my sponsor for County Line – Los Angeles
As always, enjoy.