On 1928, William Mulholland, the once-celebrated engineer who brought water to Los Angeles, resigned as General Manager and ...

The Hollywood Dam was meant to be celebrated. After the St. Francis Dam disaster, it was hidden. The Hollywood Reservoir Dam was originally envisioned as a civic monument to celebrate Los Angeles' ...

Trace the devastation of the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse and its deadly flood. Author Geoff Manaugh joins Nathan to understand the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse, which unleashed a deadly flood that ...

The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke of midnight on a windy March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam broke. Many of the ...

St. Francis Dam, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles. (Courtesy of UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives) There's a lesson to be learned within each moment – including ...

78 years ago today the St. Francis Dam burst, sending 12 billion gallons of water into a small town near Saugus. The flood was so powerful and so swift that the number killed has always been ...

"This publication is the Southern California quarterly, LXXVII, Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1995) and the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly, 40, Nos. 3-4 (Spring/Summer 1995)"--T.p. verso. siris ...

Mulholland : a man and an aqueduct -- The dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Responsibility and reparations -- The politics of ...

In San Francisquito Canyon, the remains of the concrete St. Francis Dam stand as a chilling testament to one of California’s deadliest disasters. Collapsing in 1928 and releasing over 12 billion ...