Huntington Lake (Kaiser Peak, Huntington Lake)
(37°14′9.96″N 119°10′44.4″W)
Mount Huntington (Mt Goddard)
Description:
Named in 1912 for Henry Edwards Huntington, at that time president of Pacific Light & Power Corporation; born at Oneonta, New York, 1850; railway and corporation officer; collector of books and works of art; now (1926) living at San Marino, California.
Huntington Lake reservoir formed in Big Creek basin by three dams constructed for Pacific Light & Power Corporation by Stone & Webster, 1912-1913; fourth dam constructed and level of reservoir surface raised thirty-five feet, 1916-1917. Pacific Light & Power Corporation consolidated with Southern California Edison Company, 1917. (Hydroelectric Power Systems of California, U. S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 493, by Frederick Hall Fowler, 1923, pp. 640-642.) From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar
Mount Huntington: Named by R. B. Marshall, U.S.G.S., for Collis Potter Huntington (1821-1900), one of the organizers of the Central Pacific Railroad. (R. B. Marshall.) From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar
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References:
- Wikipedia
- Sierra National Forest description
- Southern Californian Edison history
- Big Creek Project overview
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