Mark Twain Branch

Mark Twain Branch is a library in Los Angeles, Southern California, California. Mark Twain Branch is situated near the suburb Westmont, as well as near Vermont Knolls.

Type: Library
Description: public library in Los Angeles, California, USA
Also known as: “Mark Twain Branch Los Angeles Public Library”
Address: CA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Vermont/Athens station and Harbor Freeway station.

Vermont/Athens station

Railway station

Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Vermont/Athens station is a below-grade light rail station on the C Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is situated in the median of Interstate 105 and named after Vermont Avenue and the Athens community where it is located. Vermont/Athens station is situated 1½ miles south of Mark Twain Branch.

Harbor Freeway station

Bus station

Photo: METRO96, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Harbor Freeway station is a transit center located on the Harbor Transitway, within the Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange of Interstate 105 and Interstate 110 near Figueroa Street in the neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Harbor Freeway station is situated 1¼ miles south of Mark Twain Branch.

Avalon station

Railway station

Photo: HanSangYoon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Avalon station is an elevated light rail station on the C Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. It is located in the median of Interstate 105, above Avalon Boulevard, after which the station is named, in the neighborhood of Green Meadows. Avalon station is situated 2 miles southeast of Mark Twain Branch.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Westmont and Vermont Knolls.

Westmont

Suburb

Westmont is an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California, a part of the South Los Angeles area, just east of Inglewood. The population was 33,913 at the 2020 census, up from 31,853 at the 2010 census.

Vermont Knolls

Suburb

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Vermont Knolls is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, within the South Los Angeles region.

South Los Angeles

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South Los Angeles is a large region of Los Angeles made up of the neighborhoods south of Downtown L.A. This is a relatively impoverished area of the city, infamous for gang violence and for being the epicenter of major race riots in the 1960s and 1990s.