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Antonio Feliz adobe in 2015. Rancho de Los Feliz was a 6,647-acre (2,690 ha; 26.90 km 2) Spanish land concession in present-day Los Angeles County, California purportedly given in 1795 by Spanish Governor Pedro Fages to José Vicente Feliz, although there is no deed or other record.
Los Angeles: Los Nietos: 1784 Pedro Fages: Manuel Nieto: 167,000 acres (67,583 ha) [note 9] Long Beach, Downey, Whittier: Los Angeles: San Rafael: 1784 Pedro Fages: José María Verdugo: 36,403 acres (14,732 ha) 381 SD Glendale: Los Angeles: Nuestra Señora del Refugio: 1794 Diego de Borica: José Francisco Ortega: 26,529 acres (10,736 ha) 154 ...
Arved Fuchs (born 26 April 1953) is a German polar explorer and writer. Fuchs in 2006 Sailing boat Dagmar Aaen. On 30 December 1989, Fuchs and Reinhold Messner were the first to reach the South Pole with neither animal nor motorised help, using skis and a parasail. That made him the first person to reach both poles by foot within one year.
The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $50,793, about the same as the rest of Los Angeles, but a high rate of households earned $20,000 or less per year. The average household size of two people was low for the city of Los Angeles. Renters occupied 75.5% of the housing stock, and house or apartment owners the rest. [12]
The ranchos of Los Angeles County were large-scale land grants made by the governments of Spain and Mexico between 1784 and July 7, 1846, to private individuals within the current boundary lines (last adjusted in 1919) of Los Angeles County in California, United States.
What city is close to Channel Islands National Park? The islands are off the coast of Southern California, near Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara. The closest major airport is Los Angeles ...
Head of branding iron with Rancho San Rafael's mark. Rancho San Rafael was a 36,403-acre (147.32 km 2) Spanish land grant in the San Rafael Hills, bordering the Los Angeles River and the Arroyo Seco in present-day Los Angeles County, southern California, given in 1784 to Jose Maria Verdugo.
The Taylor ranch bordering on Lankershim Blvd. was divided by a stream. It contained the studio front lot and the backlot on the east side of the stream. The photographs of the Providencia Ranch land, "A Birds Eye View of Universal City", can be seen in the Los Angeles Image Archives. Universal still had control of the property as of March 1917.