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Item Title
West Fork Ranger Station, Rincon-Red Box Road, Sierra Madre, Los Angeles County, CA
LocationRincon-Red Box Road,
Sierra Madre vicinity, CA
Find maps of Sierra Madre, CA
Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CA-2202
Building/structure dates:
1900 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1924
Building/structure dates:
1936 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1977
Significance: The West Fork Ranger Station appears to be the first Federal Forest Ranger Station built in California and the second built in the United States with government funds ($70.00). It is the oldest standing station on the Angeles National Forest and possibly on the other Forests within the Region. It symbolizes the early history of Federal Forestry in Southern California, and reflects a Ranger Station in a rustic mode.
Related Names
Newcomb, Louis
Beque, Philip
Baldwin, Jack
Sevier, Willard
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. West and South side
2. Southside
3. South and East side
4. Closeup, Southeast corner
5. Eastside
6. North and East side
7. North side and West front
8. Southeast interior corner detailed
9. South Gable interior detailed
10. North wall interior
11. Photocopy of photograph (print in the Forest Archaeologist's Office, Angeles National Forest)
12. Photocopy of photograph (print in the Forest Archaeologist's Office, Angeles National Forest)
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