Augustus F. Hawkins Park Explained
| Augustus F. Hawkins Park |
| Location: | 5790 Compton Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90011 |
| Coordinates: | 33.9903°N -118.2467°W |
| Area: | 8.5 acres |
| Created: | 2000 |
| Operator: | L.A. City Parks, SM Mountains Conservancy |
| Publictransit: | Slauson station |
Augustus F. Hawkins Park is a 8.5acres 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. A park ranger lives on site.[6]
The park was built in 2000 at a cost of $4.5 million. The location had previously been a municipal storage yard classified as a brownfield.[7] The land was formerly fenced off with barbed wire, which has been replaced by stone walls and hand-made artistic metal gates. The land is on long-term lease from the LADWP.
August F. Haw, California
August F. Haw 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]
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: 2014-07-30 . Augustus F. Hawkins Nature Park . 2023-11-04 . City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks . en.
- Web site: The Los Angeles Times 10 Apr 2003, page Page 61 . 2023-11-04 . Newspapers.com . en.
- News: 2000-12-17 . A Little Piece of the Country Comes to the Heart of the Big City . 49 . The Los Angeles Times . 2023-11-04.
- News: 2000-12-17 . A Little Piece of the Country Comes to the Heart of the Big City . 49 . The Los Angeles Times . 2023-11-04.
- Book: Roberts, Nina S. . Serving Culturally Diverse Visitors to Forests in California: A Resource Guide . DIANE Publishing . 2010 . 978-1-4379-2618-7 . 36 . en.
- Book: Rosenfeld, Hank . Green peace a tip is the hat to the urban park ranger Los Angeles Magazine . May 2001 . Emmis Communications . 32–34 . en.
- Book: Loehrlein, Marietta . Sustainable Landscaping: Principles and Practices . 2013-09-26 . CRC Press . 978-1-4665-9321-3 . 135 . en.
- http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/zcl_1_results.jsp Find a ZIP + 4 code By City Results, United States Postal Service
- http://cd12.lacity.org/communityguide/cd12communityguide235736557_03242006.pdf Proposition O Call for Projects, City of Los Angeles - Proposition O Citizens Oversight Advisory Committee, p. 3, 2005
- Book: Johnson, Robert Lee . Notable Southern Californians in Black History . 2017-01-23 . Arcadia Publishing . 978-1-62585-115-4 . en.
- http://www.aqmd.gov/aqmd/zip_codes_in_SCAQMD.xls Air Quality Management District, ZIPCODES WITHIN THE SOUTH COAST AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, 2007
- http://www.medbd.ca.gov/survey/2008CulturalBackgroundReport.pdf Medical Board of California, 2008 Cultural Background Survey Statistics by Zip Code/County
- https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/omb/asset.aspx?AssetId=2300 Alexander Daumit, White House - Office of Management and Budget, List of Valid US Cities, 2007
- See, for example, Google search for "August F. Haw"
