- Title
- Newhall, Cal.
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- Description
- A view looking down an unidentified street in Newhall. Businesses including a cafe, drug store, gas station, and hotel line the street, and flags hang from lines over the street.
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- Physical description
- 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Streets--California--Newhall; Stores, Retail--California--Newhall;
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- Note
- Newhall is located in the Santa Clarita valley, and was originally part of the Rancho San Francisco land grant. Between 1872 and 1875, businessman Henry Mayo Newhall purchased ranchos in central and southern California, including the Rancho San Francisco. Anticipating the success of the railroads, Newhall granted a right of way through his lands in the Santa Clarita Valley to the Southern Pacific Railway, thereby enabling the first tracks connecting Los Angeles and San Francisco. He also sold them a parcel of land along the tracks for a whistle-stop. He named the station Saugus, after his hometown in Massachusets. The railroad company began designing a new town around the station, and named it Newhall. Prior to 1987, Newhall existed as an independent but unincorporated town, but in 1987, Newhall, Valencia, Canyon Country, and Saugus consolidated to form the City of Santa Clarita.
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- Collection Location
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Newhall (Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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