Wilmington, Los Angeles Wilmington, Los Angeles Wilmington as outlined by the Los Angeles Times Wilmington as outlined by the Los Angeles Times Wilmington, Los Angeles is positioned in Los Angeles Wilmington, Los Angeles - Wilmington, Los Angeles County Los Angeles City Los Angeles Wilmington is a neighborhood in the Los Angeles Harbor Region region of Los Angeles, California, covering 9.14 square miles.

It is the site of Los Angeles Harbor College, Banning High School and ten other major and secondary schools.

It became a separate town/city in 1863, and it joined the town/city of Los Angeles in 1909.

The Port of Los Angeles precinct of Wilmington was encompassed in the 1784 Spanish territory grant of Rancho San Pedro. Phineas Banning acquired the territory that would turn into Wilmington from Manuel Dominguez, heir of the initial concession holder Juan Jose Dominguez, in 1858 to build a harbor for the town/city of Los Angeles. Known as New San Pedro from 1858 to 1863, it was later titled Wilmington by "Father of the Harbor":7 Phineas Banning after his Delaware birthplace. In 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, Banning and Benjamin Wilson gave the federal government 60 acres of territory to build Drum Barracks to protect the nascent Los Angeles harbor from Confederate attack.:8 The City of Los Angeles took in Wilmington in 1909, and today it and neighboring San Pedro form the waterfront of one of the world's biggest import/export centers.

Citizens of Wilmington were dubious that annexation would be in their best interests, fearing that it would shift economic activeness out of their town/city and towards Los Angeles.

Because the town/city government of Los Angeles so firmly wanted to have the burgeoning port inside the town/city limits, it made a number of promises to Wilmington and also to the equally-dubious people of San Pedro.

During World War II the United States Military directed the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation in Wilmington, from which soldiers and sailors were sent abroad to battle zones.

The Banning Museum - Phineas Banning entrepreneur, the founder of the town/city of Wilmington, and "the Father of the Port of Los Angeles" assembled the 23-room residence in 1864. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Torrance Health Center in Harbor Gateway, Los Angeles, near Torrance and serving Wilmington. Only 5.1% of Wilmington inhabitants aged 25 or older had instead of a four-year degree by 2000, a low figure when compared with the town/city and the county at large, and the percentage of those inhabitants with less than a high school diploma was high for the county. Wilmington is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

The only post-secondary school in Wilmington is Los Angeles Harbor College at 1111 Figueroa Place. Wilmington Park Elementary School, LAUSD, 1140 Mahar Avenue Los Angeles Public Library operates the Wilmington Branch. The Wilmington Waterfront Park, opened in June 2011 between the Port of Los Angeles and Wilmington. Hartley (1901 1970), Los Angeles City Council member, 1939 41 Asa Keyes, Los Angeles County precinct attorney Moore, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943 51 List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor region "Harbor," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times a b c d "Wilmington," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times "Diversity," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times Los Angeles examiner, Los Angeles (1912).

The Bad City in the Good War: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Diego.

Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.

Los Angeles Unified School District.

Los Angeles Unified School District.

"Wilmington Schools," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Public Library.

Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks Port of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Public Library reference file Los Angeles Public Library reference file "Asa Keyes Succumbs to Stroke," Los Angeles Times, page 1.

Los Angeles Public Library reference file Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wilmington, Los Angeles.

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