Some historians state that the name ''Lancaster'' was bestowed upon the town by Mr. Prior to that date, in , Mr. Wicks has started a Scottish settlement of about persons in the Valley, presumably the town was a more permanent home for those people. The story goes on to say that he named the new city for his former home, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Another version of the way Lancaster received its name attributes the deed to Mr. Purnell, a member of the Southern Pacific Railroad staff whose duties included the naming of all stations.
Another source states that the town was named by M. Wicks when he laid out the townsite in Wicks supposedly named the town after Lancaster, PA. In , H. Williams published a book in New York titled ''Pacific Tourist'' in which he mentions the town of Lancaster, California, and so from this it seems that the SP must be given credit for naming Lancaster as ML Wicks did not come to Antelope Valley until the s when he started his first colony on the west side of the Valley. The Southern Pacific also built the first houses in Lancaster, for their employees.
Soon after this several men from Sacramento, connected with a bank there and other businessmen of that city, purchased land from the railroad company and prepared to colonize the valley.
Gay and Mrs. Payne as managers, and J. They bought up a good deal of yucca land around the valley and sent a large number of Chinese laborers in to cut down the trees. On the corner of Tenth Street and Antelope Avenue, a fine brick hotel of two stories and eleven rooms was built. This was called the Lancaster House and might be a credit to our town today had it not been destroyed in by a fire which started in Frank Glencross' store. The early streets in Lancaster were very easy to find.
Starting at 8th Street now Avenue I continuing south, the streets were 9th and 10th now Lancaster Boulevard , 11th and 12th streets.
Savage, who was one of those moving here from London in response to an advertisement, we have the following description of Lancaster. The Lancaster House occupied the corner of Tenth Street and Antelope Avenue on the north, and across the street and south was a frame warehouse and tinshop, Mr.
By the s the cattle industry had slowed down tremendously in the valley due to a growing population and disputes with sheep herders and alfalfa growers.
General Beale and a team of men led the camels from New Orleans to Fort Tejon, where they subjected the animals to various tests but ultimately found the experiment problematic.
Ultimately, some camels headed out into the desert and the rest were sold at auction by the U. Although the fault is perhaps best known for the earthquake that caused the great San Francisco fire, one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in U. As a result of the quake, which registered about 8. Because the affected area was sparsely populated at the time, only two people died; today, the same earthquake would probably kill many more people in communities such as Frazier Park, Palmdale, Taft, and Wrightwood, all built on or near the area that ruptured in During the s, completion of a Southern Pacific Railroad line through Antelope Valley changed the region from an isolated basin to a magnet for settlers.
The railroad had been looking for an inland railroad route between San Francisco and Los Angeles since , following passage the previous year of the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railroad Act to give railroad companies land grants to encourage settlement near train routes and distribute public land to make family farms affordable. The Southern Pacific finished its route through the valley in and settlers soon flocked to the region and established homesteads near surface water, thus launching a boom growth period.
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Gallery 1 Gallery 2 Gallery 3. Fred Hamilton son of Ezra Hamilton in mining clothes and surrounded by the tools of his trade, c. Pancho Barnes, c. Lancaster Railroad Depot, c. Construction of Owens Valley Aqueduct, c. Antelope Valley farm scene with an early hay baler, c. Cattle round-up on Butterworth Ranch, c.
Cowboys at H. Butterworth corral, c. Lancaster remained an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County until when it incorporated as a city. Lancaster is 72 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. It's the northern most city in Los Angeles County, and is geographically isolated from suburban Los Angeles by the San Gabriel Mountains of the Angeles National Forest — a transverse range east-west orientation.
The north slope of the approximately 40 mile long San Gabriel Range marks the southern border of the Mojave Desert, and its southern slope the Los Angeles Basin. Much of the city's infrastructure is solar powered, including City Hall, local schools, and even the minor league baseball stadium.
In , Lancaster became the first city in the U. Due to its location near north-facing foothills of a mountain range, any day in Lancaster may be a windy day. Whether it be a sustained, yet slight breeze of 8 mph, or one with steady wind at least 25 mph, wind is the norm in Lancaster. With peaks ranging in elevation between 3, to 5, feet above sea level, cooler ocean air drawn inland toward Lancaster is warmed once above land.
But before reaching Lancaster the air travels up and over the Sierra Pelona Range, cooling again as it gains elevation before dropping down to the valley floor. After the hottest of summer days the natural southwesterly on-shore flow delivers cool air to Antelope Valley after sunset, and despite a July and August average high temperature of 97 degrees, residents can consistently expect the mercury to fall to the mids overnight, an average low temperature below that experienced in the central or eastern portions of the Mojave Desert.
Where to stay - click for list of accommodations with maps. Their ancient foraging way of life persisted virtually unchanged until the lates.
Like others living in this arid region of extreme temperatures, the Paiute lived a life of cyclic wandering. Family groups built brush-covered shelters in key locales, taking advantage of the seasonal availability of wild seed, roots, small animals, and insects until the influx of settlers with their large scale farming and cattle ranching drove away game, reducing the Paiute ability to hunt, as well as to gather natural foods. This patch of desert became permanently settled by non-First Nations people with the arrival of Southern Pacific Railroad tracks linking San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The Lancaster stop included a station house, section gang housing gang is the term that was used for a group of railroad workers and locomotive watering facilities. Until the midth century the hills and flatlands of the Antelope Valley were home to roaming herds of pronghorn antelope.
Eradicated by habitat loss to farming, the pronghorn became scarce by the mids. In I saw one near Riverside. Today , there are very few in southeastern California. How the area came to be officially known as Lancaster is a mystery. Speculation ranges from the theory that it was christened by settlers hailing from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to the idea that it was titled due to a railroad station clerk's surname of Lancaster.
Some claim the name Lancaster was arbitrarily placed on the sign at the town railroad stop by Southern Pacific and that's how it was known henceforth.
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