Baldwin Lake is a sag pond in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, which is in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California, south of the San Gabriel Mountains. The pond, arboretum, a
Looking north across Baldwin Lake from near the Queen Anne Cottage at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden. California native fan palm trees (Washingtonia filifera) and Mexican fan palm trees (Washingtonia robusta) line the north shore.
Spiny softshell turtle (Apalone spinifera) laying eggs along the East bank of Baldwin Lake.
Canada geese and ducks on Baldwin Lake in late summer.
Raining at Baldwin Lake with ducks, turtles, and tall Mexican fan palm trees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9M2dKBcwmk
Reid-Baldwin Adobe
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The Reid-Baldwin Adobe, formerly called the Hugo Reid Adobe, is an adobe house built in 1839. It is located at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia, California. The Hugo Reid
Baldwin Lake (Los Angeles County, California)
…Arcángel. At the site of the Tongva settlement, the Spanish established Alyeupkigna Rancheria in 1800, as an agricultural outpost of the mission. The Hugo Reid Adobe was built by Scottish−Mexican Hugo Reid on the shore of the pond in 1840. Reid received the full Mexican land grant for Rancho Santa Anita in 1845…
The "Hugo Reid Adobe" c. 1903, prior to removal of a wood-frame addition by Baldwin