Zelzah

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Zelzah station (California, 1910-1929) was a Southern Pacific depot town founded in 1910 at the Colonel Henry Hubbard & "Bud" Wright Hawk Ranch north of Los Angeles.

Shortly after the Los Angeles City Aqueduct opened in 1913 Henry Hubbard became a member of Aqueduct Board. The following year Zelzah Grammar School opened and citizens formally voted for annexation to the City of Los Angeles and Owens River water rights in 1915. William Mulholland, engineer of the mammoth project, lived nearby and maintained one of many large rancho tracts remaining from the Spanish, Mexican and Californio land grant days.

Zelzah Acres became the name of one of those early housing tracts carved from the former enormous Ex-Mission Rancho San Fernando lands joining nearby towns of Chatsworth Park, Lankershim, Owensmouth, San Fernando and Van Nuys. The post office and train depot were renamed North Los Angeles in 1929 and Northridge in 1938.