Title supplied by cataloger.; Photographic print is included with negative.; Photographs taken as part of a buildings survey conducted for the Los Angeles Unified School District which includes a narrative and documentation. The Central Los Angeles New High School #9 was built on the historic Fort Moore Hill area which is bordered by Grand Avenue and Hill Street on the north and south ends, and Cesar Chavez Avenue and the Santa Ana Freeway on the east and west. The site included a number of structures which were demolished to make room for the new school, including Vernon Avenue School, the Los Angeles Pacific Company, Tunnel Number 2, and Central Junior High School (also later known as the Los Angeles City Board of Education Administrative Offices). The school opened on September 2009 and is now known as the Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts. Seen here is the 68-foot high concrete pylon section of the Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial located on the west side of Hill Street, south of Cesar Chavez Avenue. The pylon features a 16-foot terra-cotta bas-relief American eagle, designed by noted sculptor Albert Stewart. Below the relief is an inscription that reads: "Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial - To the brave men and women who with trust in God faced privation and death in extending the frontiers of our country to include this land of promise." Groundbreaking for the memorial took place on July 13, 1953 and was completed in 1957 at a cost of $373,887.00. The memorial honors the Mormon Battalion and the U. S. 1st Dragoons who raised the American flag at the site on July 4, 1847 at the first Independence Day celebration in Los Angeles. The site for the Central Los Angeles Area New High School #9 sits just west of the memorial.
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Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial Monuments & memorials--California--Los Angeles Bas-relief--California--Los Angeles Trees--California--Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fort Moore Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hill Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Stewart, Albert Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles
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