Terminal Island is an artificial island mostly located in Los Angeles County, California, between the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Terminal Island is roughly divided between Los Angeles Harbor and Long Beach Harbor. Land use on the island is fully linked to industry and ports, as well as the Federal Penitentiary, Terminal Island.
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The island was originally named Isla Raza de Buena Gente and then Rattlesnake Island. It changed its name to Terminal Island in 1891.
In 1909, the newly inaugurated Edison Southern California Company decided to build a new steam station to provide backup capacity and emergency power for the entire Edison system, and to allow Edison to close some of its small and worn steam mills. The location chosen for the new plant is in the barren mud known as Rattlesnake Island, Terminal Island today in Long Beach Harbor. The No. 1 Factory Development began in 1910.
The land area of ​​Terminal Island has been added considerably from its original size. For example, in the late 1920s, Deadman Island on the Port of Los Angeles mainline was named and sacred, and the resulting debris was used to add 62 acres (0.097Ã, sqÃ, mi) to the southern tip of the island.
In 1930, Ford Motor Company built a facility called the Long Beach Assembly, after moving its previous operations from Downtown Los Angeles. The factory remained until 1958 when manufacturing operations were moved inland to Pico Rivera.
In 1927, a civilian facility, Allen Field, was established on Terminal Island. The Naval Reserve set up a training center on the field and then took full control, pointing to the field of Naval Air Base San Pedro (also called Reeves Field). In 1941, the Long Beach Naval Station became located adjacent to the airfield. In 1942, the Navy Reserves Training Facility was moved, and a year later the San Pedro NAB status was downgraded to Naval Air Station (NAS Terminal Island). Reeves Field as a Naval Air Station was dismantled in 1947, though the adjacent Long Beach Naval Station will continue to use Reeves Field as an additional airfield until the late 1990s. A large industrial facility now includes the location of the former Naval Air Station.
The island is home to about 3,500 first and second generation Japanese-Americans before World War II in an area known as East San Pedro or Fish Island. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, all Issei adult men on Terminal Island were locked up by the FBI on February 9, 1942. Immediately after the signing of the Executive Order of 9066 on 19 February 1942, the rest of the population was given 48 hours. to evacuate their homes. They were then sent to internment camps, and the whole neighborhood was destroyed. The Japanese community on Terminal Island was the first to be evacuated and interned en masse.
Due to the relatively geographic isolation of the island, citizens develop their own culture and even their own dialect. After World War II, residents of Terminal Island settled elsewhere. In 1971, they formed the Terminal Islanders Club, which has organized events for its members. In 2002, second generation surviving residents made a warning on Terminal Island to honor their parents.
During World War II, Terminal Island was an important center for the defense industry, especially shipyards. It is also, therefore, one of the first places where African Americans try to influence their integration into defense-related work on the West Coast.
In 1946, Howard Hughes transferred his horrible Spruce Goose aircraft from his factory in Culver City to Terminal Island in preparation for his flight test. In the first and only flight, take off from the island on November 2, 1947.
Brotherhood Raceway Park, a 4-mile drag racing trajectory, was opened in 1974 on former US Navy ground. It was operated, with many interruptions, until it was closed in 1995 to be replaced by a coal handling facility.
The preservation of empty buildings makes this island a place on the top 11 sites in the National Trust for Historic Preservation 2012 The Most Threatened Place Historic Place. In mid-2013, the Board of Commissioners of the Port of Los Angeles approved the conservation plan. Trust mentions the site as one of ten historic sites stored in 2013.
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Current use
The western part of the island is part of the San Pedro area in the city of Los Angeles, while the rest is part of the town of Long Beach. The island has an area of ​​11.56 km 2 (4.46 sq mi), or 2,854 hectares (11.55 km 2 ), and has a population of 1.467 in 2000 census.
The Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach Port are the main landowners on the island, which in turn rent most of their land for container terminals and bulk terminals. The island also hosts canning, shipyards, and the US Coast Guard facility.
The Federal Penitentiary, Terminal Island, which began operations in 1938, hosted more than 900 low-security federal prisoners.
The Long Beach Naval Shipyard, deactivated in 1997, occupies about half of the island. Sea Launch maintains a mock docking facility that is part of a naval station.
The Aerospace Company, SpaceX, intends to build a plant on the island to build a planned BFR rocket. The 19 acre (7.7 ha) site was used for shipbuilding from 1918, and was previously operated by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation and then Southwest Marine Shipyard. The location has been in use since 2005. The new SpaceX rocket, too large to be transported for long-distance travel, will be shipped to the company's launch area in Florida by sea, via the Panama Canal.
Bridge
Pulau Terminal is connected to the mainland through four bridges. To the west, the green Vincent Thomas Bridge, the fourth longest suspension bridge in California, links it to the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles. Gerald Desmond Bridge connects the island to downtown Long Beach in the east. The Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge joins Terminal Island with the Wilmington neighborhood north of Los Angeles. Adjacent to Heim Bridge is a rail bridge called the Henry Ford Bridge, or the Badger Avenue Bridge.
See also
- List of islands of California
- Albert P. Halfhill, the father of the tuna packing industry owns a fish factory here.
References
- Hirahara, Naomi (2014). Terminal Island: Los Angeles Harbor Lost Community . Santa Monica, Calif.: Angel City Press. ISBN: 9781626400184.
- Regan, Lucile Cattermole (2006). Red Lacquer Bridge . Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse. ISBN: 9781425983277.
External links
- Furusato - Lost Village Site Terminal Island
- National Park Service: A History of Japanese Americans in California: Terminal Island
- Terminal Island Bridge (CA 47, CA 103)
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