Canyon Country, CA news and local guide

Canyon Country, on the east side of the city of Santa Clarita along the Santa Clara River, was the ancestral homeland of the Tataviam for more than five hundred years, and of the Tongva, Kitanemuk and Serrano before them. After Spanish settlement the valley became grazing land for Mission San Fernando around 1790, and in the 1880s it became part of the Newhall Ranch of Henry Newhall, whose family formed the Newhall Land and Farming Company after his death. The community was first called Solemint and later absorbed its western neighbor, Honby. The St. Francis Dam collapse of 1928 flooded settlements along the river elsewhere in the valley but not Canyon Country itself. In the 1960s and 1970s Newhall Land's suburban developments turned the area into a largely residential community, and in 1987 Canyon Country joined Valencia, Newhall and Saugus in forming the city of Santa Clarita.

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Sources Wikipedia: Canyon Country, Santa Clarita, California