On 1928, William Mulholland, the once-celebrated engineer who brought water to Los Angeles, resigned as General Manager and ...

Under the moonlight of March 12, 1928, a concrete wall meant to hold a city’s future exploded — sending a 10‑story water wall roaring through narrow canyons and farmland, destroying entire towns.

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Phillip Cesena transferred to San Franciscquito Canyon in February 1928 to work as a ranch hand, mucking out stalls and exercising ranch animals. Phillip Cesena, 15, showing off his trick riding he ...

Trace the devastation of the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse and its deadly flood. Author Geoff Manaugh joins Nathan to understand the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse, which unleashed a deadly flood that ...

Ninety years ago this week, the worst civil engineering failure in California history claimed more than 450 lives and left a path of staggering destruction. The St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito ...

William Mulholland was the savior of Southern California until he wasn’t Matt Blitz The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke ...

St. Francis Dam, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles. (Courtesy of UC Riverside, Library, Water Resources Collections and Archives) There's a lesson to be learned within each moment – including ...

Edd Rice. side 1: The Breaking of the St. Francis Dam; side 2: The Fate of Edward Hickman (Vocalion 5216). National Museum of American History ...

Trace the devastation of the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse and its deadly flood. Author Geoff Manaugh joins Nathan to understand the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse, which unleashed a deadly flood that ...

The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke of midnight on a windy March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam broke. Many of the ...