Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors road records, 1873-1902

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Title:: Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors road records
Dates:: 1873-1902
Creators:: Los Angeles County (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
Abstract:: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors was created by the California state legislature in 1852 and serves in an executive, legislative, and quasi-judicial capacity. The collection of road records consists of road books and other records that document the establishment of roads in Los Angeles County from 1873 to 1902.
Extent:: 9.4 Linear Feet (8 volumes, 1 folder)
Language:: The collection is entirely in English.
Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors road records, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Scope and content:: The road records kept by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors document ordinances, property boundaries, and construction details for various road building projects in Los Angeles County. The collection includes six volumes of road books; one volume identified as "Road Orders. Ordinance Book 1 and Minute Books [1 and 2 of the Court of Sessions]," which includes Court of Sessions entries on road matters from 1851; one index volume including an alphabetical listing of street names, a property index of matters in the City Archives (Volumes 5-31 inclusive) effecting real property within the boundaries of the present city limits, as well as items from the Municipal and County records (p.1-177; references to archives and county records are in red), and a miscellaneous list of items not located (p.179-188), with numbers on the map index corresponding to the pages where the references are found; and a loose manuscript identified as "Specifications for the construction of the New Santa Susanna Pass Road."
Biographical / historical:: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors was created by the California state legislature in 1852 and serves in an executive, legislative, and quasi-judicial capacity.
Acquisition information:: The collection was purchased from N.A. Kovach in 1943.
Arrangement:: The records are arranged alphabetically.
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects:: City Planning -- California -- Los Angeles County
Roads -- California -- Los Angeles County
Roads -- Drawings
Road maps -- Los Angeles County (Calif.)

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Xiaoda Wang in 2016.
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2016-10-24 15:26:42 -0700 .

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Restrictions:: Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department.
Terms of access:: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors road records, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:: Huntington Library, Manuscript Collections

1151 Oxford Road

San Marino, CA 91108, US