History
Los Angeles State Historic Park is a 32-acre public space in Chinatown on former Southern Pacific rail yard land once known as River Station, used from 1876 to 1901. Remembered as the “Ellis Island of Los Angeles,” it was where many arrivals from the East first entered the city, and its “Cornfield” nickname came from corn spilled from rail cars and sprouting along the tracks. The site became a state historic park in 2001, when part of the historic Zanja Madre was uncovered. After the 2005 Not a Cornfield art project, the park developed into a civic open space despite funding cuts that scaled back original plans.
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