Today's text is the Report of Board to Locate a Deep Water Harbor at Port Los Angeles or San Pedro California -1897- which is really nothing more than the technical reports digested for Senate reading and published by the Army Corps of Engineers.
The best parts are the maps that I hoped would better illustrate the platting of the town of Terminal, but instead showed how quickly the town grew from a pair of crossing streets next to the station to ten or more streets.
Also nice was that the surveyor's maps confirm that I have the outline of 1870 San Pedro harbor more or less correct. The differences being where dredging was already begun and a ship channel opened to traffic. Mormon Island apparently didn't even survive this first round of changes.
Anyway, now on to the meat of the story.
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