Santa Clarita Sites

$98,500 in federal funds was spent during the Great Depression on grading and paving 4.4 miles of California Route 4 from Saugus to the non-existant community of Oak Grove. A researcher's best guess based on a Wikipedia article about former Route 99 (or Legislative Route 99 as they were once termed) and an old topographical map, is that the route constructed is Railroad Ave north from Newhall to Magic Mountain Parkway to what is now I-5.

"In 1924 a group of prominent Los Angeles African Americans, led by actor and real estate developer Sidney P. Dones and including Norman O. Houston, Joe and Charlotta Bass, Hattie S. Baldwin among others, bought 1,000 acres in Santa Clarita Valley forty miles north of the city to build a vacation resort for African Americans. These investors, who called their proposed community Eureka Villa, envisioned a resort area of cabins located on half-acre lots, free from the prejudices and restrictions of the city. The resort featured a community house, tennis courts, baseball fields, hiking trails and a nine-hole golf course....