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San Dimas, California

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San Dimas (Spanish for "Saint Dismas") is a city in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the 2020 census, its population was 34,924. It historically took its name from San Dimas Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains above the northern section of present-day San Dimas. San Dimas is bordered by the San Gabriel Mountains range to the north, Glendora and Covina to the west, La Verne to its north and east side, Pomona to its south and east side, Walnut and the unincorporated community of Ramona to the southwest, and the unincorporated community of West San Dimas, which is an enclave in the southwestern portion of the city.

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Puddingstone Reservoir
Puddingstone Reservoir

Puddingstone Reservoir is a 250-acre (1 km²) artificial lake northeast of the interchange between the Orange Freeway (State Route 57) and the San Bernardino Freeway (Interstate 10) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Activities include fishing, swimming, sailing, windsurfing, and camping. It is fed by Live Oak Wash and drains into Walnut Creek. Brackett Field, Raging Waters, and Fairplex (formerly the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds) are all adjacent to Puddingstone Reservoir, which is inside Bonelli Regional Park. In 1923, the County of Los Angeles Flood Control District purchased a large piece of land to construct a dam to hold back floodwaters from an area covering 30.3 square miles (78 km2). Work on the Puddingstone Dam started in February, 1925 and was completed in January, 1928. In 1932, a road across the top of the dam was constructed, creating a more direct route between the Pacific Electric station in San Dimas and Pomona Blvd. in Pomona. It was a considerably more direct route south - travelers previously had to either go west through Covina or east through Ganesha Park in Pomona. Historically, Puddingstone Reservoir, besides acting as a flood control basin, also provided water to the local citrus growers. Water was pumped to a smaller reservoir further north, which was used for irrigation purposes. It was soon used for recreation as well, with fishing, boating, and swimming allowed along selected beach areas. Los Angeles County established Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park at the site. A swimming pool facility was constructed by the county in the area just north of the reservoir, but in the late 1970s or early 1980s, they leased the area to a private developer who constructed Raging Waters, a pioneering water-themed amusement park. Today, the road over the dam is still in use and is undergoing major upgrades. Following the construction of Raging Waters, the road was renamed Raging Waters Drive, and extends from the entrance to the park on the south, to Puddingstone Drive on the north. The original portion of the road's right of way to Pomona was developed as part of the Orange Freeway (State Route 57).The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has issued a safe eating advisory for any fish caught in the Puddingstone Reservoir due to elevated levels of mercury and PCBs.

La Casa de Carrión

La Casa de Carrión is an Adobe home built in 1868 by Saturnino Carrión (27 Nov 1831 - 25 Jun 1868). It is currently located in La Verne, California. The La Casa de Carrión was designated a California Historic Landmark (No. 386) on Dec. 14 1945. When La Casa de Carrión was built it was on the Rancho San Jose land. The Casa de Carrion the land was owned by Carrion's uncle Ygnacio Palomares and his business partner Ricardo Vejar. Ygnacio Palomares had built his own home, Ygnacio Palomares Adobe, near by in what is now Pomona, California in 1855. The land of Casa de Carrion was gifted to Saturnino Carrión by Ygnacio_Palomares. The adobe home was built in a "L" shape with the front of the house facing north. Saturnino Carrión, his wife, Dolores (b.11 Aug 1843 in Santa Barbara), and their three sons moved into La Casa de Carrión at completion. The three sons were: Ramon del Refugio (b.4 Jul 1865), Julian (b. 5 Nov 1866) and Frank. Saturnino and Dolores married on 15 May 1865 at the Plaza Church in Pueblo Los Angeles. Born at La Casa de Carrión to Saturnino and Dolores were daughters: Josefa, Agatha and Louise. Saturnino Carrión raise livestock on his ranch at La Casa de Carrión. Saturnino Carrión grew up in the City of Los Angeles, the only child of Casiano Carrión and Josefa (Lopez) Carrión. Julian continued to run the ranch after his father died.Carrion's uncle Ygnacio Palomares was elected the last Mexican California mayor of Los Angeles in 1848, but held the position briefly due to Colonel Jonathan Stevenson considering him intolerable and anti-American, following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848.The Rancho San Jose consisted of land taken from the Mission San Gabriel in 1834 as part of the Mexican government's secularization decree of 1833. In 1837, Mexican Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado granted the land to Ygnacio Palomares and Ricardo Vejar, both Californio sons of New Spain natives. The Rancho San Jose operated by Dons Palomares and Vejar covered land that now forms the communities of Pomona, LaVerne, San Dimas, Diamond Bar, Azusa, Covina, Walnut, Glendora, and Claremont.In 1887 La Casa de Carrión became part of the new town call Lordsburg, named after the new owner, Isaac W. Lord, of the land around the ranch. The house is still a private residence in La Verne, California. Paul E. Traweek restored the old home in 1951.