"The opening of Camp Edison at Shaver Lake in the early 1960s provided improved camping facilities for the growing number of recreational visitors to the Big Creek area."
Sumner B. Wright began buying up land in the Swarthout Valley of the San Gabriel Mountains at the turn of the 20th century; by the 1920s he had turned his considerable holdings in the valley into the Circle Mountain Cattle Company, which was both...
James B. (James Benton) Clover (1870-1956) owned a substantial amount of land in Mono County, Calif., south of Mono Lake including a large portion around Rush Creek. In 1930, the City of Los Angeles began eminent domain rights proceedings on much...
Don B. Skinner was the recreational director for Los Angeles from 1933-1939. He entered the Los Angeles City School District as a gardener in 1939 and then was transferred to the Secondary Agriculture Department in 1947. He and his wife Murray were...