Long Beach Area History: Signal Hill
(California: California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive),
Source: csulb-dspace.calstate.edu
Source: csulb-dspace.calstate.edu
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- Abstract / Summary
- Oil was discovered on Signal Hill, north of the City of Long Beach, in 1921. Soon more wells were brought it and the field spread into the City. As more people moved into the area to work on the wells and the developments that followed them, people in pre-existing neighborhoods worried that the field's spread might bring out of control wells, smelly sump holes and dangerous equipment near their homes. In response, Long Beach adopted regulations that limited oil development. Even as the City incorporated outlying neighborhoods that filled with the homes of oil workers and those in related industries, people on top of the hill, near the center of petroleum development, resisted. And in 1926 they incorporated their own City of Signal Hill which is completely surrounded by the City of Long Beach.
- Field of Interest
- Letters and Diaries
- Content Type
- Oral history
- Format
- Related Web resources
- URL
- https://csulb-dspace.calstate.edu/handle/10211.3/206609
- Publisher
- California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
- Place Published / Released
- California
- Subject
- Letters and Diaries, History, Economics, Environment, Labor force, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, California, Long Beach, CA, North America, Signal Hill, CA, United States
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos