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Month: March 2018

— History, Ventura County —

The littlest victims of the St. Francis Dam disaster

March 9, 2018

It was three minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, and 3 1/2 -month-old Everett Kelley was inside his home in Fillmore, CA. About 10 miles north of Everett’s home, the St. Francis Dam, built as a water storage reservoir for Los Angeles, catastrophically failed and sent a wall of water down the Santa Clara… Read More The littlest victims of the St. Francis Dam disaster

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