Benedict Canyon Military KILL BOX history (Holby Hills, Beverly Crest)

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Benedict Canyon was a part of Rancho de las Aguas ("Ranch of the Waters"), which also included present-day Beverly Hills. It was named by Edson A. Benedict, a storekeeper and native of Boonville, Missouri, who took a homestead in the Canyon in 1868. With help from his wife and sons, E. A. Benedict built an apiary that was so bountiful that in one year, they were reported to have made a single shipment of 45,000 pounds (20,000 kg) of honey from Santa Monica Pier. One of Mr. Benedict's sons, Pierce E. Benedict, later went on to be elected to the city of Beverly Hills Board of Trustees at the time of its incorporation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Canyon,_Los_Angeles

Most of the houses in Benedict Canyon can see surveilled from Summitridge Drive to the East and Bel Air Road to the West.

Paul Allen Land Trust owns most of the land above the Sharon Tate murder scene, which is presently occupied by Jeff Franklin, television producer of FULL HOUSE starring comedian Bob Saget, another unsolved murder.

Celebrities
A number of notable people live or have lived in Benedict Canyon. Some of them are:

Fred Astaire
John Barrymore
David Beckham
Pasul Levy Bern, murdered at 9820 Easton Drive (Jay Sebring house)
Susan Berman, murdered at 1527 Benedict Canyon Drive
Jacqueline Bisset
Orlando Bloom
Adrien Brody
Ron Burkle
Gerard Butler
Mike Farrell
Cary Grant
Jimi Hendrix
Thomas H. Ince, murdered at 1051 Benedict Canyon Drive
Danny Kaye
Kirk Kerkorian. International Hotel Las Vegas
Robby Krieger
Jack Lemmon
Lisa Kudrow
Mila Kunis
Ashton Kutcher
John Legend
Jay Leno
Harold Lloyd
Jon Lovitz
Demi Moore
Phil McGraw
Elizabeth Montgomery
Rupert Murdoch
Lachlan Murdoch
George Reeves, murdered at 1579 Benedict Canyon Drive
Emmy Rossum
Gene Simmons, Israeli KISS fake band
Tony Scott (director)
Bruce Springsteen
Channing Tatum
Kate Upton
Rudolph Valentino at 1436 Bella Drive, turned over to Doris Duke.
Yvette Vickers
Jon Voight

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