Knoll Hill (Los Angeles, California)

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San Pedro once had seven small hills along its coastline near what is now the downtown area, and Knoll Hill is the last of these hills which is mostly intact.
The rest of the hills were destroyed in the process of filling in tidelands to serve port operations.
These include Liberty Hill, which was roughly where the Port Administration Building parking lot is today. This is where dockworkers early in their organizing period stood up for their rights and where Upton Sinclair was arrested for reading from the U.S. Constitution.
These events gave birth to the Southern California American Civil Liberties
Union. The removal of the other hills destroyed much of the natural topography and shoreline as well as significant aspects of local and American labor history.
Though these hills helped provide fill dirt for the port, there were other sources of soil which could have been used. Knoll Hill is composed of the San Pedro sand formation, a rich paleontological resource. In a similar formation just north of this location (at the border between San Pedro and Wilmington), the remains of a ancient whale were excavated, now on museum display.

The Knoll Hill property is owned by the Port of Los Angeles.

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