Lagol was a coal & water stop for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and my wife and I own the northern 45 acres of the former "town". All that's left of the original buildings is an abandoned bunkhouse on the south side of 118 (not ours), where the water
tower once stood, and some sort of storage for coal. On our side is the foundation and septic tank from another bunkhouse that burned to the ground around 1910 from what I understand. At least this is the info that I have, and so far I've found
nothing that disputes it.
Charles & Kay (Thunderbolt Farms)
On Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 10:26:04 PM UTC-8, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
On 12/11/2012 4:30 PM, Larry Scholnick wrote:
I like to think that I know where everything is in Southern California, but I was watching the 11PM News on one of the L.A. network affiliates recently and they gave the weather for Lagol. Lagol? Where the heck
is Lagol? And if I don't know, is there anyone out there in the
stations's audience who does?
Indeed, a quick visit to Google Maps (or others) finds that Lagol, CA
is just west of Moorpark, CA (about where the railroad tracks cross
CA-118 between Grimes Cyn and Balcom Cyn).
Is there anyone in our reading audience who actually knew where Lagol
was without consulting a map or GPS? Was there ever anything there
such that anyone might remember the name LAGOL?
I have occasionally seen local weather reports include weather for Sandberg, but at least there was once a hotel there (southeast of
Gorman, CA near the intersection of Old Ridge Route and Pine Canyon
Road), so some longtime Angelenos (local term for L.A. resident)
might remember where Sandberg was.
For the rest of you (outside of Southern California), does your local
TV news give weather reports for places that you (as a geographically-aware person who follows this newsgroup) have never
heard of?
If it's on a rail line, it's probably the name of a railroad siding. Out
in the desert, where there are few actual towns to confuse things, there
are names shown on the maps every five miles or so. Most were just
places where they could pick up water or coal for the locomotives, but
the RR companies gave them all names.
Lagos is one of those. A 1903 USGS topo map shows Lagos Siding, Ternez Siding and Fremontville between Somis and Moorpark. Fremontville was an actual neighborhood.
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