Los Angeles, circa 1863.
The photo, part of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library, looks north at the intersection of Main, Spring, and Temple streets. Fort Moore Hill appears on the left, behind the original Temple Block structure.
1868 view of a water wheel that moved water from the Los Angeles River into the Zanja Madre, an irrigation ditch that flowed into the center of the historic pueblo.
As The Eastsider LA blog reports, artists, engineers, and public officials plan to build a water wheel as a “functional piece of art” at this historic site between Chinatown and Lincoln Heights.
