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|subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Los Angeles |government_footnotes = |government_type = |leader_title = |leader_name = |established_title = Settled |established_date = 1873 | population_total = 649 | population_as_of = April 1, 2010 | population_density_km2 = auto |area_magnitude = | unit_pref =US | area_footnotes = | area_total_sq_mi = 10.687 | area_land_sq_mi = 10.623 | area_water_sq_mi = 0.064 | area_total_km2 = 27.680 | area_land_km2 = 27.514 | area_water_km2 = 0.166 | area_water_percent = 0.60 | area_note = |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_ft = 3228 |elevation_m = 984 |timezone = Pacific |utc_offset = -8 |timezone_DST = PDT |utc_offset_DST = -7 |coordinates_display = inline,title |coordinates_type = region:US-CA_type:city |latd = 34.6769294 |longd = -118.4453598 |postal_code_type = ZIP codes |postal_code = 93532 |area_code_type = Area code |area_code = 661 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = |blank1_name = GNIS feature IDs |blank1_info = , |footnotes = ; }} Lake Hughes is an unincorporated community in the foothills of the Sierra Pelona Mountains, northwest of Palmdale and the Santa Clarita Valley, in the Angeles National Forest. It is on the sag pond waters of Hughes Lake and Elizabeth Lake (Los Angeles County, California). The community is agricultural in character, with a population of 649 at the 2010 census, but also has a strong recreational element centered on its four lakes. The town of Lake Elizabeth actually resides within Lake Hughes, sharing the same zip code. They together make the entire town of Lake Hughes. ==History== Nearby Elizabeth Lake, known then as ''La Laguna de Chico Lopez'', was a watering locale on Spanish colonial and Mexican El Camino Viejo in Alta California and the Gold Rush era Stockton - Los Angeles Road. From 1858 to 1861 Lake Hughes was between the Widow Smith's Station and Mud Spring stage stops of the Butterfield Overland Mail. The lake area was to the west of Rancho La Liebre, an 1846 Mexican land grant now part of Tejon Ranch. Lake Hughes was named for Judge Griffith (Patrick) Hughes, who homesteaded the area around the turn of the 20th century.〔"Looking Back - Lake Hughes Being Rescued From Pollution," ''Daily News of Los Angeles (CA),'' February 25, 1989. Author: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer.〕 Settlers were drawn to the area because water was more plentiful than in the drier Antelope Valley. In 1907 William Mulholland, superintendent of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, started work on the Elizabeth Lake Tunnel for transporting water in the Los Angeles Aqueduct from Owens Valley to Los Angeles. Less than a half a mile east of Lake Hughes, the five-mile (8 km)-long tunnel is under the valley floor. The tunnel was driven from both ends. The north portal is at Fairmont Reservoir and the south in Bear Canyon (now Portal Canyon) just off of Green Valley. This -wide tunnel was driven . through solid rock and met in the center within 1½ inches in line and 5/8 inches in depth. Work was around the clock and averaged about per day. The Elizabeth Lake tunnel was the largest single construction project on the Los Angeles Aqueduct and set speed records in its day. C.A. Austin promoted Lake Hughes as a summer resort in 1924, as a "Fine Mountain Resort On The Edge Of Antelope Valley."〔"Fine Mountain Resort On The Edge Of Antelope Valley," Antelope Valley Ledger-Gazette (CA)," December 18, 1925〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lake Hughes, California」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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