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Location | 5790 Compton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011 |
Coordinates | 33°59′25″N 118°14′48″W / 33.99028°N 118.24667°W |
Area | 8.5 acres |
Created | 2000 |
Operated by | L.A. City Parks, SM Mountains Conservancy |
Public transit access |
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Augustus F. Hawkins Park is a 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) public park south of downtown Los Angeles, California in the United States. [1] The park includes a nature center and plantings donated by the Huntington Gardens in San Marino. [2] Full-size oak trees were trucked to the site from Ramona. [3] Plantings native to California are prioritized, including sycamores and willows adjacent to the constructed wetland. [4]
The park attracts up to 5,000 visitors a week from the surrounding highly diverse neighborhood. [5] Community and educational programs are hosted in the nature center. [5] A park ranger lives on site. [6]
The park was built in 2000 at a cost of $4.5 million. [3] The location had previously been a municipal storage yard classified as a brownfield. [3] [7] The land was formerly fenced off with barbed wire, which has been replaced by stone walls and hand-made artistic metal gates. [6] The land is on long-term lease from the LADWP. [3]
August F. Haw [ sic] is the shortened placename designated by the United States Postal Service for a South Los Angeles area associated with ZIP codes 90002, 90044, 90051, 90059, and 90061. [8]
It is a corruption of the name of the Augustus F. Hawkins Natural Park, which was recently built in a highly urbanized area of south LA. [9] The park itself is named after former Congressman Augustus Freeman "Gus" Hawkins. [10]
This corrupted name is recognized on an information pass-through basis by a variety of government agencies, including state agencies such as the Southern California Air Quality Management District [11] and the Medical Board of California, [12] and the federal government. [13]
The name is also widely used in commercial databases. [14]
Augustus F. Hawkins Park | |
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Location | 5790 Compton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011 |
Coordinates | 33°59′25″N 118°14′48″W / 33.99028°N 118.24667°W |
Area | 8.5 acres |
Created | 2000 |
Operated by | L.A. City Parks, SM Mountains Conservancy |
Public transit access |
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Augustus F. Hawkins Park is a 8.5-acre (3.4 ha) public park south of downtown Los Angeles, California in the United States. [1] The park includes a nature center and plantings donated by the Huntington Gardens in San Marino. [2] Full-size oak trees were trucked to the site from Ramona. [3] Plantings native to California are prioritized, including sycamores and willows adjacent to the constructed wetland. [4]
The park attracts up to 5,000 visitors a week from the surrounding highly diverse neighborhood. [5] Community and educational programs are hosted in the nature center. [5] A park ranger lives on site. [6]
The park was built in 2000 at a cost of $4.5 million. [3] The location had previously been a municipal storage yard classified as a brownfield. [3] [7] The land was formerly fenced off with barbed wire, which has been replaced by stone walls and hand-made artistic metal gates. [6] The land is on long-term lease from the LADWP. [3]
August F. Haw [ sic] is the shortened placename designated by the United States Postal Service for a South Los Angeles area associated with ZIP codes 90002, 90044, 90051, 90059, and 90061. [8]
It is a corruption of the name of the Augustus F. Hawkins Natural Park, which was recently built in a highly urbanized area of south LA. [9] The park itself is named after former Congressman Augustus Freeman "Gus" Hawkins. [10]
This corrupted name is recognized on an information pass-through basis by a variety of government agencies, including state agencies such as the Southern California Air Quality Management District [11] and the Medical Board of California, [12] and the federal government. [13]
The name is also widely used in commercial databases. [14]