Banning Dam: Difference between revisions

The '''Banning Dam''' is a 122-year-old [[dam]] in [[Westlake Village]], [[California]]. ConstructedBuilt justless than a few hundred feetmile east of what would later be [[Lake Sherwood, California|Lake Sherwood]],<ref name="google_201106">{{cite web | url=http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.135278,-118.851667&spn=0.01,0.01&t=h&q=34.135278,-118.851667 | title=Decker Canyon Road | publisher=Google | work=Google Maps | accessdate=June 23, 2011}}</ref> albeit fifteen years older, the structure is located within the [[Lake Eleanor Open Space]]. Named for its builder, [["Captain" William Banning]], the dam was completed in 1889 and creates [[Lake Eleanor (Westlake Village)|Lake Eleanor]], not to be confused with [[Lake Eleanor|Yosemite's Lake Eleanor]] (though both exist due to damming).