Los Angeles County · CA
Long Beach
Twin ports, oil derricks and the Queen Mary.
- Population
- 466,742 (2020 census)
- Incorporated
- 1897
- Signal Hill oil
- 1921
Then
- 1880
William Willmore subdivides about 4,000 acres as Willmore City, a farm colony.
- 1921
Oil is struck on Signal Hill.
- 1933
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake kills 120 people and wrecks many schools.
- 1967
The city buys the liner Queen Mary to become a hotel and museum.
Now
The Port of Long Beach is the country's second-busiest container port and works as a twin with the Port of Los Angeles next door. The Navy fleet left in the 1990s.
This stretch covers San Pedro Bay from Cabrillo Beach and the Los Angeles harbor east to the San Gabriel River.