Mulholland family
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Water Education Foundation
William Mulholland (1855-1935), an immigrant from Ireland, is infamous in the history of California water and the state’s water wars for both his far-sightedness and no-holds-barred approach to delivering a controversial water supply to Southern California. He is a love-hate character with a story that has many tellings, including in the 1974 fictional movie, Chinatown.
According to historical accounts, at the turn of the 20th century, he rose from ditch tender for the Los Angeles City Water Company to leading the new municipal Water Department (the predecessor to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power) as its first superintendent and chief engineer. At that time, he began searching for a new water supply for the rapidly growing area and came up with a plan of an aqueduct system to transport water from the Eastern Sierra to Southern California, which resulted in the first Los Angeles Aqueduct and Owens River system. The plan was approved by voters and given the go-ahead by President Theodore Roosevelt.
At the 1913 dedication of the L
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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
American civil rights activist (born 1941)
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm").[1] The following year she was the first white student to enroll at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi and served as the local secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
She later worked as a teacher, and after her retirement she established the Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to educating youth about the Civil Rights Movement and how to become activists in their communities.
Early life
Joan Mulholland, born as Joan Trumpauer[2] in Washington, D.C., was raised in Arlington, Virginia.[3]
Her great-grandparents were slave owners in Georgia, and after the United States Civil War, th
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The Man Who Built the First Los Angeles Aqueduct*
Water is the life-blood of every community. The man who did more than any other to furnish that vital element to Los Angeles is William Mulholland, who for many years was chief engineer and general manager of the city-owned Bureau of Water Works and Supply (now the Water System of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power). He died in 1935 but his work lives on. Every time a faucet is turned the water it releases is a reminder of the man whose life was devoted to public service.
Los Angeles is no longer a one-horse town but it is a one-river town - or, at least, it used to be. That river is the Los Angeles River. Spanish explorers discovered it in 1769 and with prophetic vision said that the area surrounding it "has all the requisites for a large settlement." Their prediction was made seven years before the Declaration of Independence was signed. They were right. Founded in 1781, Los Angeles grew from a humble pueblo founded into the second largest city in t
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