The Insanely Ambitious and Corrupt Plot to Grow L.A.
from Aerial America Hosted by Smithsonian Channel
In 1898, the mayor of Los Angeles, Fred Eaton, came up with an audacious plan to drive up the value of local real estate. He would secretly divert the water from an entire river valley in the north to the city.
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