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Santa Clarita Valley History In Pictures

PLACERITA CANYON

See also MELODY RANCH
LW2181 - Lopez Gold Discovery in New York Newspaper, 10-1-1842.
California's REAL First Gold by Leon Worden · COINage magazine, October 2005
California Gold: The F. Lopez Discovery by Leon Worden · The Signal, January 1996
New Information About First Gold Discovery by Leon Worden · The Signal, 8-14-1996
A Golden Legacy: The Walker Family of Placerita Canyon by Norinne De Gal · The Signal, 2-20-2000
A Crude Wonder: Placerita White Oil by Norinne De Gal · The Signal, 2-20-2000
Joseph Reynier & Family, SCV Pioneers by George Starbuck · January 2002
Placerita Gold: Sutter and Marshall Knew They Weren't the First by Leon Worden · Valley Living, April 2006
'Placerita Gold': Evelyn Adams by Linda Tarnoff · PCPOA News, March 2007.
GS0000 - George Starbuck's Walker Family Collection.
GS3001 - "Cap" Harmon's Gold Mining Sluice, 1890s-1900s.
LW2203 - Generic Woodcut of a Gold Sluicing Operation.
GS0100 - Herman Mosher's oil well in Placerita Canyon, early 1900s. 130K.
GS0200 - Walker Homestead, c. 1910s. 130K.
LW2219 - Film Set, Placerita Canyon, early 1930s.
LW2045 - Brochure for Walker's Placerita Gold Panning Camp, pre-1938.
Plane Crash Near Newhall Kills 2 · The Signal, 1-14-1937
DS3701-2 - Boeing 247 Crash on Mt. Piñetos, 1-12-1937.
AL1938 - William S. Hart and Andy Jauregui, Jauregui Ranch, Placerita Canyon, 1938. 228K.
CC5901 - Placerita State Park Dedication (2 Views), 1959.
LW2217 - Oak of the Golden Dream, Color Postcard, ca. 1963.
LW2155 - "The Dukes of Hazzard" Television Series in Placerita Canyon (2 Views), 1979-1985.
SG0904 - Oak of the Golden Dream (2 Views), 9-18-2004.


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