Artesia

Artesia is a city in southeast Los Angeles County, California.

Artesia features an International Cultural District, a stretch of Pioneer Boulevard known as Little India that includes a number of Indian beauty salons, clothing and jewelry stores as well as Indian restaurants.

The only link to the Artesian wells remaining is an archaic water tower just east of Pioneer Boulevard, near 183rd. Not much is known about the tower or when it was constructed, but it has been featured in film, “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare,” and television, “My name is Earl.”

The city is working to have the water tower, which can hold 50,000 gallons of water and was once owned by the Southern California Water Company, declared a historical landmark.

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