Finding aid for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors road records mssHM 80341-80349

Finding aid prepared by Xiaoda Wang in 2016.
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Descriptive Information

Title: Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors road records
Creator: Los Angeles County (Calif.). Board of Supervisors
Date (inclusive): 1873-1902
Identifier/Call Number: mssHM 80341-80349
Physical Description: 9.4 Linear Feet (8 volumes, 1 folder)
Repository: The Huntington Library
The Huntington Library
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Email: reference@huntington.org
Phone: (626) 405-2191
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.
Language of Material: The collection is entirely in English.

Biographical / Historical Note

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.

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The collection was purchased from N.A. Kovach in 1943.

Preferred Citation

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

Related Materials

The Huntington has a collection of Los Angeles County Assessor's road maps, 1860-1897, that relate to the road records. See the record in the online catalog for a link to images of the maps on the Huntington Digital Library (HDL).

Scope and Contents

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."

Arrangement

The records are arranged alphabetically.

Indexing Terms

Subjects - Corporate Names

Los Angeles County (Calif.). Board of Supervisors

Subjects - Geographic Names

Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century
Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century
Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- Maps

Subjects - Topics

City Planning -- California -- Los Angeles County
Roads -- California -- Los Angeles County
Roads -- Drawings

Forms and Genres of Material

Road maps -- Los Angeles County (Calif.)


Box 1

Index, 1888

Scope and Contents

Includes "an alphabetical index of streets and other matters; a property index of all matters contained in the City Archives (Vols 5 to 31 inclusive) affecting real property within the boundaries of the present city limits; a number of items selected from the Municipal and County Records; and a miscellaneous list of items not located."
Box 2

Ordinance book and minute books, 1891 April-1898 November

Scope and Contents

Includes ordinance book and minute books of Board of Supervisores; minute books 1 and 2 from Court of Sessions; business card of N.A. Kovach.
Box 3

Road book volume 1, 1873-1882 May

Box 4

Road book volume 2, 1882 May-1889 August

Box 5

Road book volume 3, 1889 August-1891 December

Box 6

Road book volume 4, 1891 December-1895 May

Box 7

Road book volume 5, 1895 June-1900 February

Box 8

Road book volume 6, 1900 February-1902 January

Box 9

Specifications for the construction of the New Santa Susanna Pass Road, 1893 September 22