Hancock Park
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For the Los Angeles neighborhood, see Hancock Park, Los Angeles.
Hancock Park is a park in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, area, which is the location of the La Brea Tar Pits, the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The park does not, however, lie within the Hancock Park neighborhood which is approximately one mile to the east. The park is named after George Allen Hancock.[1]
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- ^ "Died". Time magazine. June 11, 1965. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,833740,00.html. Retrieved 2010-03-27. "George Allen Hancock, 89, California oilman and philanthropist, who inherited a 3,000-acre ranch in 1883, discovered the famed La Brea tar pits full of prehistoric remains while digging for oil (which he also found), made a fortune from his wells and the sale of property for what is now Los Angeles' Wilshire district, later gave $7,000,000 to the University of Southern California; of a heart attack; in Santa Maria, Calif."
Coordinates: 34°03′49″N 118°21′25″W / 34.063632°N 118.356823°W
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