for Old Town Newhall Association's Night Under the Stars Sept. 13 for SCVTV.com • Local Television for Santa Clarita
for Old Town Newhall Association's Night Under the Stars Sept. 13 for SCVTV.com • Local Television for Santa Clarita
Newhall Cowboys' Dam Victim Marker
Ruiz Cemetery, San Francisquito Canyon
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March 9, 2002: Silent film star William S. Hart led a funeral procession from his hometown of Newhall on foot up San Francisquito Canyon to the Ruiz Cemetery, where the party placed this marker. It reads: "In memory of those who lost their lives in the Santa Clara flood Mar. 13, 1928 / Erected by the Newhall cowboys." (The valley was called the Santa Clara before it became known as the Santa Clarita, and the dam broke just before midnight on March 12, but most deaths occurred just after midnight on March 13.)
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