Adobe brick said to be from a tunnel at San Jose Creek near the Homestead
Entry/Object ID
80.33.1.1
Description
Adobe brick said to be from a tunnel at San Jose Creek near the Homestead. According to the donor, Larry Barnes of the Earth Sciences Division, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, "In 1959 or 1960 the Army Corps of Engineers channeled the San Jose Creek and in doing so uncovered the entrance to a tunnel. The opening was 5 feet tall and 4 1/2' wide. I found the entrance back in the bushes, framed in an arch with bricks on north side of stream slightly southwest of present buildings. The opening was clogged up. I have one more brick in a complete square and at least 50 morters [sic] and pestles or metates and manos from the site of the La Puente High School. I recorded where I found them. At the time no one was interested in them. I took them to LACM [NHMLAC] but they were not interested in them either."
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