One of the deadliest disasters in American history, the collapse of the St. Francis Dam in 1928 left devastation in its wake. Today, only fragments remain—but they still echo the scale of the tragedy.

In San Francisquito Canyon, the remains of the concrete St. Francis Dam stand as a chilling testament to one of California’s deadliest disasters. Collapsing in 1928 and releasing over 12 billion ...

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 ...

On this day in 1898, Maria “Mary” S. Ruiz was born in San Francisquito Canyon to a pioneering ranch family whose roots in the ...

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 ...

Mulholland : a man and an aqueduct -- The dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Responsibility and reparations -- The politics of ...

"This publication is the Southern California quarterly, LXXVII, Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1995) and the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly, 40, Nos. 3-4 (Spring/Summer 1995)"--T.p. verso. siris ...

The second deadliest dam failure in U.S. history happened suddenly. The St. Francis Dam was a 205-ft-high concrete gravity arch dam located in San Francisquito Canyon, 30 miles north of Los Angeles.

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 ...

The Hollywood Dam was meant to be celebrated. After the St. Francis Dam disaster, it was hidden. The Hollywood Reservoir Dam was originally envisioned as a civic monument to celebrate Los Angeles' ...