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Dogtown, California (other)
Dogtown, California may refer to: * Dogtown, El Dorado County, California, a former settlement and mining camp * Dogtown, Marin County, California, an unincorporated community * Dogtown, Mariposa County, California, an unincorporated community * Dogtown, Mono County, California, a ghost town * Dogtown, San Joaquin County, California, a census designated place * Dogtown, Tulare County, California, a ghost town * Dogtown, Oakland, California, a neighborhood * Garberville, California, formerly called Dogtown * Harris, California, formerly called Dogtown * Magalia, California, formerly called Dogtown * Santa Monica, California, nicknamed Dogtown * William Mead Homes, north of Los Angeles, nicknamed Dogtown See also * Dogtown (other) * ''Dogtown and Z-Boys'', a 2001 documentary film * ''Lords of Dogtown ''Lords of Dogtown'' is a 2005 American biographical drama film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and written by Stacy Peralta. The film follows a group of young skatebo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogtown, El Dorado County, California
Caldor (previously Dogtown) was a company town in El Dorado County, California. Caldor was linked to Diamond Springs by the Diamond and Caldor Railway. The community was named for the California Door Company, which owned and operated the town. Geography Caldor was located in southern El Dorado County, miles southeast of the nearest extant community, Grizzly Flats. The town was situated at the confluence of Dogtown Creek and its tributary McKinney Creek, nestled in a narrow valley between Plummer Ridge to the north and a spur of Big Mountain Ridge to the south. The townsite sits at an elevation of about . History During the California Gold Rush, a settlement called Dogtown was established, and a sawmill was built. It was located northeast of Newtown. A reference to the town can be found in the Mountain Democrat newspaper, in which Jake Schneider of Pleasant Valley moved to Dogtown in order to open a butcher shop. In 1900, long after the town had been abandoned, the Califor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogtown, Marin County, California
Dogtown (originally named Woodville) is an unincorporated community in the rural West MarinEMS Program, Annual Report 2000 Prehospital Care Information System, Marin County, Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health Services, April 2001, retrieved September 12, 2007 region of coastal , in the 's [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogtown, Mariposa County, California
Dogtown is an unincorporated community in Mariposa County, California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the ..., United States. It is located on Maxwell Creek east of Coulterville, at an elevation of 2582 feet (787 m). References Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Mariposa County, California {{MariposaCountyCA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogtown, Mono County, California
Dog Town (also, Dogtown and Dogtown Diggings) is a gold rush era ghost town in Mono County, California. It is located at , on Dog Creek, near the junction of Clearwater and Virginia Creeks, about south-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 7057 feet (2151 m). History The town was established in approximately 1857 by Carl Norst as a placer mining camp. By 1859, a group of Mormons had arrived as miners at the site and a mining camp arose. Dog Town became the site of the first gold rush to the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada. Prospectors rushed here after hearing rumors of gold being washed out near Mono Lake. A small camp and trading center sprung up immediately. Dogtown did attract attention to the area as a whole, including the subsequent discoveries of much richer gold deposits in nearby areas such as Bodie, Aurora and Masonic. Town name The name "Dogtown" was often applied by miners to camps where living conditions were miserable. It was derived from a popular mine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogtown, San Joaquin County, California
Dogtown is a census-designated place in San Joaquin County, California. Dogtown sits at an elevation of . The 2020 United States census reported Dogtown's population was 2,643, which is up from 2,506 in the 2010 United States census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 13.0 square miles (33.6 km2), 99.83% of it land and 0.17% of it water. Demographics The 2010 United States Census reported that Dogtown had a population of 2,506. The population density was . The racial makeup of Dogtown was 2,040 (81.4%) White, 15 (0.6%) African American, 23 (0.9%) Native American, 57 (2.3%) Asian, 2 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 253 (10.1%) from other races, and 116 (4.6%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 638 persons (25.5%). The Census reported that 2,506 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized. There were 849 hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogtown, Tulare County, California
White River is a little unincorporated community in Tulare County, ten miles east of Delano, California, United States. It was founded as a gold camp in 1856, during the Kern River Gold Rush. It was first located on the Coarse Gold Gulch two miles west of the present site and was called Dogtown. When the first road was built to Linn's Valley, Dogtown was moved a mile and a half west to the road. Its name was changed to Tailholt after one of the first stagecoaches to stop in town provided the new name, due to a humorous incident. It involved a lady passenger on the stagecoach who grabbed the tail of her dog as it jumped out the window in pursuit of a cat. She hung on screaming for help until the owner of the local restaurant, Mother Cummings, came to her rescue. While she was lifting the dog through the window of the coach she said, "Well Ma'am, a tail-holt is better than a no holt at all". The coach driver, Yank, on his return to Visalia told the postmaster and keeper of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogtown, Oakland, California
Dogtown is a nickname for a portion of West Oakland (officially Clawson) in the city of Oakland, California. Oakland Police officers coined the phrase due to a large population of stray dogs dating from the early 1980s. It is bounded on the east by Adeline Street, on the west by Mandela Parkway (previously the Cypress Street Viaduct), and its north–south limits are the 580 freeway and 28th Street. The area is undergoing rapid redevelopment from former industrial uses to live-work and other residential forms.City of Oakland Planning Commission report , retrieved 2007 History The neighborhood was populated by African Americans who had settled there from the Southern US during[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garberville, California
Garberville is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. It is located on the South Fork of the Eel River south-southeast of Eureka, at an elevation of . The population was 913 at the 2010 United States Census. It is approximately north of San Francisco, California, and within a fifteen-minute drive to Humboldt Redwoods State Park and a sixty-minute drive to Eureka, the county seat. Garberville is the primary town in the area known as the Mateel Region, consisting of parts of the Mattole and Eel River watersheds in southern Humboldt and northern Mendocino counties. History Prior to recorded history, the area was populated by southern Sinkyone people. In 1853, a Spanish explorer, Antone Garcia, settled in the area near Town Gulch, which runs through modern-day Garberville. The first post office in Garberville opened in 1874. Jacob C. Garber, the town postmaster, later named the town after himself in 1879. Geography Garberville is located at . The town is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magalia, California
Magalia (formerly Butte Mills and Dogtown) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Butte County, California, United States. The population was 11,310 at the 2010 census. History Originally established after the 1849 California Gold Rush as a mining camp, the town was first called Mountain View. A dog breeding operation started in 1850 which led to the name Dogtown. A post office opened in 1857, which was shared with the adjacent settlement of Mill City; the two eventually united. In 1861 the name was changed to Magalia after the Latin word for cottages. On April 12, 1859, at the Willard Claim, a hydraulic mine in the Feather River Canyon northeast of the town, a 54-pound (20 kg) gold nugget was discovered, the largest in the world at the time. Dubbed the "Dogtown nugget", it made the town famous. 2018 fire The community suffered extensive damage in the Camp Fire, a wildfire which began on November 8, 2018. As of December 13, Butte County Sheri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica (; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Santa Mónica'') is a city in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, situated along Santa Monica Bay on California's South Coast (California), South Coast. Santa Monica's 2020 United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census population was 93,076. Santa Monica is a popular resort town, owing to its climate, beaches, and hospitality industry. It has a diverse economy, hosting headquarters of companies such as Hulu, Universal Music Group, Lionsgate Films, and The Recording Academy. Santa Monica traces its history to Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica, granted in 1839 to the Sepúlveda family of California. The rancho was later sold to John Percival Jones, John P. Jones and Robert Symington Baker, Robert Baker, who in 1875, along with his Californio heiress wife Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, founded Santa Monica, which incorporated as a city in 1886. The city developed into a seaside resort during the late 19th and early 20th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mead Homes
William Mead Homes is a public housing development located in Chinatown, a neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles. Nicknamed "Dogtown" because of its proximity to the historic Ann Street Animal Shelter whose canine residents could be heard for blocks around, it is operated by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles. History The site was funded with the federal Housing Act of 1937. The proposal to build the site was rejected in December 1940 because of high land purchase costs (averaging $23,900 per acre, when other developments were as low as $2400). was owned by the Consolidated Steel Corporation. The remaining property was on land bequeathed by William Mead, an early Los Angeles politician. The land price was reduced to $20,000 an acre by January 1941, but didn't proceed until a federally-backed United States Housing Authority loan signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt was given on March 12, 1941. It was built in 1941-1942 and contains 449 units in 24 buildings, replacin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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