Peninsula, Long Beach, California
Neighborhood of Long Beach in Los Angeles, California, United States
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peninsula is a neighborhood in Long Beach, California. The landform is known as the Alamitos Peninsula.[1] It separates Alamitos Bay from the Pacific Ocean.[2] It is adjacent to Belmont Shore and across the water from Naples.
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| Country | United States |
| State |  California |
| County |  Los Angeles |
| City |  Long Beach |
| Website | lbpeninsula |
History
In geological terms, the Alamitos Peninsula is a sandspit.[3] Below this and many layers of sedimentary rock lies the Catalina Schist.[4]
The first homes were built between 1902 and 1904.[2][5] Around 1903, developers Strong and Dickinson and Robert March & Co. purchased and subdivided the land into 500 lots.[6] In 1929, a legal dispute (Livesey v. Stock) between two Peninsula homeowners over a fence and the high-tide line reached the Supreme Court of California.[7] The neighborhood was severely impacted by the 1939 California tropical storm.[8]
The Pacific Electric Long Beach-Alamitos Bay-Seal Beach Line ran along the Peninsula and across a trestle to Seal Beach, where it connected with the Balboa Line.[9] This track was abandoned in 1940.[10][2]
Sand is moved from the beach near the Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier to the Peninsula to replenish what is carried away by longshore drift.[11] There is evidence the Long Beach Breakwater contributes to this issue by blocking the natural northwest to southeast current.[12]
Architecture
- Edward Killingsworth - home for Dr. Thomas Kiddie and his wife Mary[13]
Gallery
Peninsula
Bay side of Peninsula
Naples, Treasure Island and the Peninsula in 1936, showing the bridge to Seal Beach
The Peninsula and the San Gabriel River, circa 1941-1947
c. 1920s view of the Peninsula
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