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- The Haskell Ranch in Haskell Canyon, northwest of Bouquet Canyon, was settled about 1890 by Jonathan Condit Haskell. He built the cattle ranch up to over 800 acres.
According to Haskell family tradition, just as a couple of drought years almost bankrupted Jonathan Haskell, he discovered a rich placer deposit practically at his kitchen door. The deposit was so rich, the story goes, that Haskell and a hired man placered out $25,000 worth of gold dust in one year.
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Haskell Canyon Open Space
Welcome to Haskell Canyon, a 526 acre canyon with steep hillsides, spacious grassland meadows, and stands of oak trees throughout. Haskell Canyon is situated on the north side of town, along the edge of the Angeles National Forest. The Haskell Canyon family homesteaded this canyon for their cattle ranch in the early 1900's. Later, the Agajanian family raised hogs here until the 1950's. A San Diego developer had plans to turn this canyon and surrounding hillsides into over 500 homes a few years ago, but resistance from the neighbors provided the City of Santa Clarita an opportunity to acquire the property for open space.
Directions
Haskell Canyon is located north of Copperhill Drive, east of Haskell Canyon Road. Parking is available east of High Ridge Drive along the roadway. Parking is also available on Ranchview Terrace, off of High Ridge Drive, along the street curb. Signs are posted at the trailhead.
Note from Dorothy Haskell
The entire area of Newhall, Saugus, et al is now known as Santa Clarita. The land is now full of houses, with the main street going through the development named Haskell Canyon Road, I don't know if there is still a trail there or not, as when we were there we were unaware there ever was one and so didn't look for one.
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Los Angeles Herald
July 4, 1909
The body of John Haskell of Saugus was buried yesterday afternoon in Evergreen cemetery. Mr. Haskell died suddenly Friday, while eating his luncheon in a North Main street restaurant.
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In 1865, two years before marriage to Mary Ellen Moody, his school sweetheart, he had gone to the gold country in California and made a stake in Sonora. He made enough money to return to Maine. He had crossed part of the West by wagon train on his way to California.
He returned to Maine to marry Mary Ellen, and immediately after marriage, according to grandson Condit Haskell, they boarded a boat and made the trip around Cape Horn to California (no Panama Canal then), where they returned to the gold mines. First child, Bertha (Auntie Bee), was born in Sonora. Shortly after, they moved to a farming area in Los Angeles called Hyde Park, where their second child, Fred was born. Their last five children were born in Los Angeles.
He became successful in the brick building business after move to L.A. He built the WCTU building on North Broadway in L.A., and the Mathis Building further out on Broadway. Also had contract to enlarge L.A. jail. Active in civic affairs and Masons. (info per John Condit Haskell)
Note: In an effort to present themselves as being younger than they were, at some point in time the Haskell girls began to give later dates as their birth years. In order to accommodate their sisters' wishes, the Haskell boys had to also start using later dates for their birth years. This accounts for some discrepancies in the dates of their births. The 1900 U.S. Federal census of their father, Jonathan Haskell, gives the month and year of their births while they were still children. Therefore, the years in the following geneaology for their births are the actual, correct years in which they were born, even though death records and gravestones may give a later year.
Family records and notes courtesy of Dorothy Joanne Haskell
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1841 - 1909 (68 years)
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