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Beale's Cut
Newhall, California

The wedding party of Albert Edwin Nicholls, Sr., then-owner of Nicholls-Loomis Feed & Grain Mill at 12th Street and San Pedro in Los Angeles, and his bride, Mable Gleason Cunningham (DAR), travel through Beale's Cut in 1903 on their way to a northern California honeymoon. Grandson Ed Nicholls writes: "Their progression was from farming in Kane County, Illinois, to Placerville, Calif. (Hang Town) circa 1860-'70, hence to Los Angeles and then to Blythe, Calif., where 'Nicholls War Springs' was created and somewhat lost in the struggle." (The distortion at lower left is damage to the original photograph.)

Photo provided by CWO Ed Nicholls (SAR), USMC / U.S. Army (AUS) Ret., of Kendalia, Texas — grandson of Albert E. and Mable Nicholls.

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