Manhattan Beach, California

Los Angeles County

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Manhattan Beach is a city situated on the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles County, which is located in the U.S. state of California. With 36,500 inhabitants ( as of 2004), the urban area has a size of 10.04 km ² (), bordering El Segundo, Gardena, Hawthorne, Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach. The beach is about 3.38 km (2.1 miles) long. Manhattan Beach is with the neighboring towns of Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach one of the three so-called Beach Cities in the catchment area of ​​the South Bay of Los Angeles. Here and in the local Mira Costa High School and parts of the American television series The OC were filmed until early 2007, Manhattan Beach, however, is not part of Orange County.

1983 was triggered in Manhattan Beach the " McMartin Trial". He was one of the first Satanist and child abuse processes.

The city is located on the California State Route 1, also known as the Pacific Coast Highway.

History

The first known inhabitants of the area, on which is now home to Manhattan Beach, were Indians. After El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles was established in 1781 was a small road, which, united the salt flats, which taking down the Indians with Los Angeles. After Mexico's independence from Spain in 1822, the new Mexican government auctioned the land to the highest bidder. In the case of today's Manhattan Beach this Antonio Ygnacio Avila was, who had acquired 91 square kilometers of land in the area to operate there sheep. Most of the new California land owners lost their property in the years after the Mexican -American War. After 1863, the Scottish immigrant, Sir Robert Burnett purchased the land of Avila, he leased it in 1873 for $ 33,000 to the Canadian Daniel Freeman and then returned to Scotland. 1885 Freeman bought the ranch for $ 140,000 of Burnett. Later, George H. Peck acquired a large part of the country, which today forms the northern part of Manhattan Beach.

In 1903, the Pacific Electric Railway built a suburban line that stretched from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica to the west, and from there along the shoreline south to Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach this also happened. 1940, the operation of this line was discontinued. Today, roughly runs along the course of the former line is a cycle.

Memorable people

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