Long Beach
Details
- Names
Long Beach
Willimore City
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on San Pedro Bay; part of Rancho Nieto (1874) & later Ranchos Los Alamitos & Cerritos; laid out in 1881; damaged by earthquake 1933; industrial growth expanded after WW II; site of ocean liner, the Queen Mary, & formerly of airplane, Spruce Goose.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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