• during the Civil War years, the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles experienced floods, droughts, a smallpox epidemic, and even a plague of locusts?

Facts on topics related to History of the San Fernando Valley to 1915

Rancho Los Encinos

• Rancho Los Encinos near Los Angeles was founded in 1797, and raised cattle, sheep and wheat, and was a stagecoach stop, before becoming a real estate subdivision with Los Encinos State Historic Park at its heart?

San Fernando Valley

• Lopez and Pico Adobes, built near the San Fernando Mission, are the oldest residences in San Fernando Valley, California?
• Van Nuys Boulevard, running through the heart of LA's San Fernando Valley, was a center of teenage cruising from the 1950s through the 1970s?
• Victory Boulevard (pictured), running the 25-mile length of the San Fernando Valley, is mentioned in Randy Newman's I Love LA: "Victory Boulevard (We Love It!)"?

North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California

• Paul Salamunovich, choir director since 1949 at St. Charles Borromeo Church (pictured) in North Hollywood, has also conducted choirs for dozens of feature films, including The Devil's Advocate?

Los Angeles

• Manson Family member Paul Watkins gave testimony to the Los Angeles District Attorney which helped explain Helter Skelter?
• LA's St. Cecilia Church, built in 1927, adapted to its multiethnic community by installing shrines to a beatified Nigerian priest, a Oaxacan Virgin, and a Guatemalan "Black Christ"?
• Los Angeles considered changing the name of the geographic region known as San Fernando Valley in 2002 to San Angeles, the same name used for the fictional city in the 1993 movie Demolition Man?
• Los Angeles-based hip hop group Black Eyed Peas have released two number one albums in both Australia and Switzerland, but have yet to achieve the same on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100?
• Hall of Famers Don Drysdale and Don Sutton each made seven Opening Day starts for the Los Angeles Dodgers since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958?
• Monica C. Lozano is the publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles-based La Opinión, the largest Spanish language newspaper in the United States?
• Pink Dot is a Los Angeles–based chain of grocery stores that offers delivery service of groceries, deli food, cigarettes, and alcohol?
• Rancho Los Encinos near Los Angeles was founded in 1797, and raised cattle, sheep and wheat, and was a stagecoach stop, before becoming a real estate subdivision with Los Encinos State Historic Park at its heart?
• Sylvia Levin registered more than 47,000 new voters in the Los Angeles area, an individual record both in California and the United States?
• You Chung Hong, the first Chinese American admitted to practice law in California, helped develop the new Chinatown in Los Angeles in the 1930s, including designing its neon-lit gateway?