Chavez Ravine is a shallow canyon in Los Angeles, California. It sits in a large promontory of hills north of downtown Los Angeles, next to Major League Baseball's Dodger Stadium.[1][2] Chavez Ravine was named for a 19th-century Los Angeles councilman who had originally purchased the land in the Elysian Park area.[3][4][5]
- ^ "Baseball Club Holds Edge in Chavez Ravine Test". New York Times. June 4, 1958.
- ^ The name Chavez Ravine can be used to mean either the actual ravine itself in a narrow sense or sometimes in a broader sense the entire promontory and surrounding ravines, and (by metonymy) is also used to refer to the stadium. Dodger Stadium was constructed by knocking down the ridge which separated the nearby Sulfur and Cemetery Ravines and filling in those two ravines. Palo Verde Elementary School was buried in the process.
- ^ Glen Creason (March 20, 2013). "CityDig: The Utopia of Elysian Park Before Dodger Stadium". Los Angeles magazine. Retrieved 2014-09-09.
- ^ William Moore (1868). "Map of Zanja Madre, Los Angeles". Retrieved 2016-01-04. Cemetery Ravine is marked to the right of the map. Calvary Cemetery is marked "Campo" by an icon of a church, where the ravine ended at modern Broadway; Cathedral High School was later built over the cemetery.
- ^ Nathan Masters (2012-03-07). "Six Notable & Unusual Maps of Southern California". KCET. Retrieved 2016-01-04. The map, "Zanja Madre, 1868" shows Cemetery Ravine on its right side.