Source: The Signal
Date: 03/07/2026 12:25am

Article Summary:
**The Time Ranger: Early Gold Discoveries, Frontier Justice, and Forgotten Tales from Santa Clarita Valley History**
This edition of “The Time Ranger” revisits key moments in Santa Clarita Valley history, including disputed accounts of California’s first documented gold discovery by Francisco Lopez in 1842 and earlier claims dating back to the 1790s. The column also recounts a dramatic 1880s attempted lynching in Newhall led by a local minister, along with colorful snapshots from 1926 such as steep Prohibition-era fines, the death of a beloved Black pastor, and Hollywood’s Tom Mix filming locally.

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