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El Camino Real Library: 4264 E Whittier Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90023: East Los Angeles: El Monte Library: 3224 Tyler Ave, El Monte, CA 91731: El Monte: Florence Library: 7807 Compton Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90001: Florence-Graham: Gardena Mayme Dear Library: 1731 W Gardena Blvd, Gardena, CA 90247: Gardena: George Nye Jr. Library: 16600 Del Amo Blvd ...
El Camino Real (Spanish; literally The Royal Road, sometimes translated as The King's Highway) is a 600-mile (965-kilometer) commemorative route connecting the 21 Spanish missions in California (formerly the region Alta California in the Spanish Empire), along with a number of sub-missions, four presidios, and three pueblos.
In 1972 the library moved to its current location, and in 1975 it was rededicated as the El Camino Real library, as it is located on the historic El Camino Real. [77] The library was rededicated again in November 2014 after a renovation and expansion that added a meeting room, teen area, and outdoor reading patio. [78] The county operates the ...
El Camino Real de los Tejas routes in Spanish Texas. Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, established the corridor for what became El Camino Real de Tierra Afuera in multiple expeditions to East Texas between 1686 and 1690 to find and destroy a French fort near Lavaca Bay, [2] established by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on what de León considered to be Spanish lands.
El Camino Real (California), commemorative route in the U.S. state of California from San Diego to Sonoma California State Route 82, highway named El Camino Real that follows portions of the historic route; El Camino Real (Florida), a historic trail from St. Augustine westward to the Spanish missions in north Florida
Ventura County Library is a free public library system of 12 community libraries and a museum library in Ventura County, California, organized in 1916. [1] At the time of its centennial in 2016, the system provided access to 412,715 physical volumes and more than 500,000 virtual items to its nearly 300,000 card holders.
For much of its length, the highway is named El Camino Real and formed part of the historic El Camino Real mission trail. It passes through and near the historic downtowns of many Peninsula cities, including Burlingame , San Mateo , Redwood City , Menlo Park , Palo Alto , Mountain View , Sunnyvale , and Santa Clara , and through some of the ...
Rev. Lasuén successfully argued that filling in the empty spaces along El Camino Real with additional outposts would provide much-needed rest stops where travelers could take lodging in relative safety and comfort. [1]: 132 [2]: 152 Heavy freight movement was practical only via water.