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Living in Big Tujunga Canyon
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Mary Lee Tiernan |
Early settlers found their way into the canyon bristling with wildlife and dense with woodlands. 50 years later, the Webber family faced the wrath of a river now winding down a denuded mountainside. |
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From Whence They Came
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Mary Lee Tiernan |
The land boom of the 1880s brought immigrants from around the world. Two generations of Blumfields settled on Sherman Grove and survived the difficulties of farming and water shortages through indust… |
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The parson and his cemetery
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Mary Lee Tiernan |
Parson Wornum was so loved that when he died, the whole village attended his funeral. Years of neglect of his cemetery spelled disaster in 1978 when heavy rains tore open graves and washed bodies dow… |
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The Roscoe robbers and the sensational train wrecking of 1894
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Mary Lee Tiernan |
Two robbers posed as passengers to flag down the train. When the engineer recognized danger, he opened the throttle and sped past. The bandits threw the spur switch and the train careened full speed … |
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