13 Facts About Gorman California

Gorman California is an unincorporated community in northwestern Los Angeles County.

Gorman is "one of the oldest continuously used trail and roadside rest stops in California, " as the Native Americans of California "would have stopped there when it was the Tataviam village of Kulshra'jek" explains Mountain Communities historian Bonnie Ketterl Kane.

Gorman California area was part of Rancho Los Alamos y Agua Caliente, an 1846 Mexican land grant.

Gorman California was a veteran of the Mexican–American War of 1848 and was at Fort Tejon as a civilian teamster and herder in 1854 while it was being built.

In 1923, the first gasoline station in Gorman California to be located away from a railroad track was established by Standard Oil.

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Gorman California was a stop on the Ridge Route, and Highway 99 after 1926, where its Standard service station beckoned travelers.

Oversight of the Gorman California substation is provided by the Santa Clarita Valley Station in Santa Clarita, The County of Los Angeles sends a bookmobile to Gorman California every Tuesday.

Gorman California remained a friend of the family after she left to be married, and would visit Gorman, taking her son, George Dale Beasley with her.

In 1990 Gorman California had the smallest school district, and the smallest school in Los Angeles County, with just three classrooms, each with combined grades.

Attendance in Gorman California School dropped to 32 pupils, and townspeople hustled to "borrow" 11 children from elsewhere in order to keep up the enrollment.

Gorman California area is a part of the Antelope Valley Union High School District, but in 1996 just four of its 24 high school children traveled the 40 miles to attend Quartz Hill High School in Lancaster, the closest high school in that district.

Gorman California is part of the Antelope Valley Community College District, whose Antelope Valley College campus is 45.

Peace Valley Road parallels the freeway on the west, north of the town, for travel to Frazier Park and Lebec, and Gorman California Post Road on the east, south of town, is a direct route to State Route 138.