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Owensmouth may refer to: Owensmouth, California was a town founded in 1912 in the Western part of the San Fernando Valley. Owensmouth joined the city of Los Angeles in 1917, and was renamed Canoga Park on March 1, 1931. Owensmouth was named for the 1913 Owens River aqueduct's terminus in current Canoga Park. The town was started by the Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company as part of an extraordinary real estate development in Southern California.〔"Pacific Electric and the Growth of the San Fernando Valley"; by David Coscia; Shade Tree Books; ©2011; ISBN 1-57864-735-5.〕 Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company was owned by a syndicate of rich Los Angeles investors, developers, and speculators: including Harrison Gray Otis, Harry Chandler, Moses Sherman, Hobart Johnstone Whitley, and others.〔"The Owensmouth Baby"; by Catherine Mulholland; Santa Susana Press (CSUN—California State University, Northridge); ©1987; ISBN 0-937048-42-9.〕 It anticipated possible connections to but was planned independent of the soon to be completed (1913) Los Angeles Aqueduct from the Owens River watershed to the City of Los Angeles through the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County.The newly built Sherman Way double drive and the Pacific Electric street cars, opened on December 7, 1912, gave new access to the town and to the other new towns in the valley Van Nuys (1911) and Marion (now Reseda); At the time the new road and streetcar seemed like route to an open agricultural fields at the end of the line — but was a necessity to promote development. Sherman Way was a paved boulevard with lush landscaping and no speed limit where one might get up to 35 mph, there was a separate dirt road for farm wagons/equipment, and telegraph lines.〔 The new town had its problems, not till 1913 did electricity get installed. In 1916 there were only 200 residents. The town and orchards did not get any aqueduct water till 1917, when City of Los Angeles annexed Owensmouth. The street, Owensmouth Avenue that runs north-west through the Valley, is one of the few reminders of the 1910s.〔(KCET, Canoga Park at 100: A Brief History of the Birth of Owensmouth )〕 *Current town of Canoga Park, Los Angeles, where the town of Owensmouth once was. *Current West Hills, Los Angeles, was part of Owensmouth (1912–1931). In 1987 West Hills was formed from a homeowners break way from Canoga Park forming the new community. * Owensmouth Ave, a street running north and south through the San Fernando Valley just east of Topanga Canyon Blvd, from just south of the CA 118 to just north of CA 101. * Owensmouth (Pacific Electric) Street car line to Owensmouth (1911 to 1952).〔〔 * San Fernando (Pacific Electric) Street car line to Owensmouth (1911 to 1952). Built by Moses Sherman's Los Angeles Pacific Railroad sold to PE.〔(Electric Railway Heritage Association )〕〔(Electric Railway Heritage Association, San Fernando Valley Line )〕 *Owensmouth Southern Pacific Railroad line and station. The 1912 station is at 21355 Sherman Way, Canoga Park, CA. The station was damaged by fire in 1995.〔(santasusannadepot.org Southern Pacific Railroads’s Owensmouth Depot )〕 *Parts of Rancho El Escorpión. Mexican land grant on the land before Owensmouth.〔(LoC-HABS: Escorpion (1937); p. 2 )〕〔(LoC-HABS: Leonis (1963); p.3 )〕〔(Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park (SSPSHP); Ethnohistory ); p. 46.〕 *Los Angeles Suburban Homes Company in Owensmouth, built by Isaac Newton Van Nuys〔(dailynews.com, A hundred years ago, Van Nuys was founded in a strategic land rush, By Dana Bartholomew, Staff Writer, 02/20/11 )〕 *State Bank of Owensmouth, President H.J. Whitley.〔() Early Los Angeles Historical Buildings (1900 - 1925) Historical Photos of Early Los Angeles〕 * Owensmouth High School in Canoga Park, California opened October 4, 1914, now called Canoga High School, the oldest H.S. in the west San Fernando Valley.〔(canogaparkhs.org CANOGA high school )〕 *Owensmouth Continuation High School in Canoga Park.〔(education.com, Owensmouth Continuation High School )〕 ==See also== * State Water Project *Warner Center (Los Angeles Metro station) *William Mulholland *Glendale and Montrose Railway *Bell Canyon Park *Sherman Way (Los Angeles Metro station) 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「Owensmouth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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