Joint Outfall System

Historical marker location:

Fountain Valley, California

( Marker is at the intersection of Ellis Avenue and Unnamed road to Orange County Sanitation District, on the right when traveling east on Ellis Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1976

The first female mayor in the U.S. was elected in California in 1887. Susanna M. Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas, but she was born in California and later moved to Kansas with her husband.