Santa Fe Land Improvement Company, Lake Hodges Dam, Rancho Santa Fe, CA (1917)

Structure Type: built works - infrastructure - transportation structures - dams

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: constructed 1917

In order to make its arid property inhabitable, the Santa Fe Land Improvement Company financed this dam to provide water to local farmers and new residents; the Santa Fe developed the 8,000 acres of the former Rancho San Dieguito into what it called, "Rancho Santa Fe;"

PCAD id: 5745

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