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Newhall by Perkins, Maggi
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- ISBN
- 0738580252
- Book Title
- Newhall
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Arcadia Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
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- Genre
- Photography, Travel, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional), United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa), Customs & Traditions
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- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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Newhall's many firsts include the first gold discovery in California and the first commercially successful oil well, which led to the first pipeline and oil refinery in California. Some of the earliest movie location filming was done here. First recorded by Juan Crespi on the Sacred Expedition of 1769, the Little Santa Clara Valley was recognized by the Spanish as an important junction between the mountain ranges separating Northern and Southern California. The early city fathers of Los Angeles saw the settlement of Newhall as an integral part of their strategy for growth from the days of the stagecoach and railroad through to the building of Ridge Route and Interstate 5. This book tells the story of the town that never quite lived up to its potential but still managed a varied history with a colorful cast rivaling those of the movies filmed here.
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Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN-10
0738580252
ISBN-13
9780738580258
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79841125
Product Key Features
Book Title
Newhall
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional), United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / West / Pacific (Ak, CA, Hi, Or, Wa), Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Photography, Travel, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
128 Pages
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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
0.7 Oz
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Title: Perkins' celebration of Newhall Author: Melissa Gasca Publisher: The Signal Date: 3/27/2010 Maggi Perkins sat at her dining table, its surface smothered in dated black-and-white photographs. She picked up an 1875 photo of the "Lyon Station Gang," a group of people who worked at Lyon's Station, which opened in 1854 to serve increasing stagecoach traffic through Newhall. Amongst seven sitting adults and a child stands one lone African-American boy. The name of the boy, Ashbridge, was scribbled on the back accompanied by no other names. As Perkins held the photo, she could hear a voice in her head. It was not her own, but the expressive and passionate voice of Arthur B. Perkins as he explained the irony of the historical remnant. "I could hear the intonation of his voice; the warm amusement that the person who would have been the least regarded in that time - a little black boy in the 1860s - is the only one that we have a name for," Perkins, 48, said. The lone survival of the boy's name represented the subtleties that drew her grandfather, A.B. Perkins, to history, Perkins said. "These are the things that make it alive for us," said Perkins, reflecting on lessons from her grandfather. "That's what he taught me history should be - it should bring you closer to the past." She spent five years, off and on, compiling her grandfather's collection of images and documents to create "Newhall," an "Images of America" book released by Arcadia Publishing on Feb. 22. The tome is one of only a handful of historical publications of the Santa Clarita Valley. Close to her past Perkins was only 15 when her grandfather died. But throughout the book's compilation, A.B. Perkins was omnipresent. The way she speaks about it, one would almost think she was there. "In the 1930s, the town (of Newhall) was stagnating," she said. "The oil money wasn't really there as much and if they had bypassed the town, it probably would have died." Spruce Street was a designated highway at the time - but its dirt track, aging buildings and oil streaks would have led the route and town into quiet oblivion, according to "Newhall." But Newhall didn't die. Instead, Spruce Street - which became San Fernando Road and now Main Street - got a makeover. "The Kiwanis Club went into action, obtaining state and county funding to widen and pave the road," Perkins wrote on page 114. "All but two property owners agreed to donate 20 feet of frontage to the state in order to get the job done. The county paid the holdouts, and the buildings were either moved back or cut off as needed." Perkins inherited historical information such as this from her grandfather's archives. As the only biological grandchild of the town's first historian, compiling the heaps of images and stories into an orderly, comprehensive - albeit not all-inclusive - historical piece had practically been a calling since her childhood. "I really do have the historian head," Perkins said. "I always planned to be a historian like my grandfather." Her passion has always been books. History books, that is. Give Perkins two history paperbacks and she'll pass them back to you by the end of the day after reading them cover to cover. "Early on, everyone in the family knew I was going to be a historian," said Perkins, who has a master's degree in museum studies and a bachelor's degree in history. Knowing that his daughter would one day follow in her grandfather's footsteps, Richard Clarence Perkins never threw out or gave away any heirlooms. Before he died in 2005, Perkins garnered much help from her father's memories in compili
Copyright Date
2010
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Images of America Ser.
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