Saint Francis Dam failed in 5 days

Saint Francis Dam failed in 5 days 

Saint Francis Dam failed 5 days after it was completed way back in 1928 sending a 180-foot wall of water down the Santa Clarita Valley killing 431 people. This was the second worst disaster in California's history and the GREATEST civil engineering disaster in U.S. History. 

Dianne Erskine-Hellrigel has worked tirelessly to bring this to the forefront of our legislators. We are signing a letter here to both Senators Feinstein and Harris asking them to approve H.R. 2156 The St. Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial Act.  #SRAR Southland Regional Association of REALTORS #Realtors #Realtor #Leadership

See my blog "My Account" about the flood of bodies leaving Santa Clarita on their way towards the Ocean.

Santa Clarita History - Mentryville

Santa Clarita History - Mentryville
Click here for video. This one is 41 minutes worth watching. It feels like being there. This Tour is filled with old stories directly from the Only kid in Mentryville featuring Darryl Manzer and filmed by SCVTV. This includes fabulous history.

If you have missed any of this, you can find it again at https://scvtv.com/2011/07/24/mentryville-informational-walking-tour-with-darryl-manzer/ 
Additional information at https://scvhistory.com/mentryville/ 

As always feel free to call me for all your real estate needs. 'Tracy Elman' Bennett, REALTOR® CalBRE #00983101 www.AskTracyElman.com  (661) 527-3777

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Santa Clarita History Simi Valley History - Dam Break

My own account,
When I was new in Real estate in the 80's in Simi Valley, an elderly lady named Alma came to me and asked me for help. She said they are trying to kill my sister. That's another story. I spent a long time that night listening to her. One thing she told me was when she was a young girl, she, her mom and her sister had to stand lookout on a tall tower. She spoke of seeing bodies and floods of water coming in at that time over the mountains. She pointed East. I mentioned this to many people in my 32 years in Simi and she was the only one that had any info. Now that I live in Santa Clarita everyone knows about that. It was the St. Francis Dam, a.k.a. San Francisquito dam break. The St. Francis Dam was a curved concrete gravity dam, built to create a large regulating and storage reservoir for the city of Los Angeles, California. At 11:57 p.m. on March 12, 1928, the dam catastrophically failed, and the resulting flood took the lives of an estimated 431 people.

What I know that others don't is that the mountain range between Stevenson Ranch Pico Canyon (S.W. of where Magic Mountain is located) is the other side of the private hills (private property) off the street Yosemite in Simi Valley, where there are also oil rigs. In Simi up in the hills, I looked down and saw Santa Clarita. 

There are numerous resources in Santa Clarita. A place to start is in the office of Tesoro Adobe Park located at 29350 Avenida Rancho Tesoro, Valencia, CA 91354 it is a public park.  http://parks.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/dpr/Parks/Tesoro_Adobe_Historic_Park 

As always feel free to call me for all your real estate needs. 'Tracy Elman' Bennett, REALTOR® CalBRE #00983101 www.AskTracyElman.com  (661) 527-3777 

Santa Clarita History - Beale's Cut -The Story behind the 5 Freeway SCV

Santa Clarita History - Beale's Cut

This picture later became the Interstate 5 Freeway near the 14.
Click Here to watch a minute video about Beale's Cut, the gold rush and other histories of the early days of Santa Clarita. Enjoy!

Contact Tracy Elman, REALTOR® BRE# 00983101 HomeSmart NCG, Inc. www.askelman.com (661) 527-3777

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Santa Clarita History - Henry Mayo

Click Here  to watch a minute video about Henry Mayo, the gold rush and other histories of the early days of Santa Clarita.  More like this will be posted in the future. Enjoy!

Contact Tracy Elman, REALTOR® BRE# 00983101 HomeSmart NCG, Inc. www.askelman.com (661) 527-3777