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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.
The grant comprised what is today Los Feliz, Griffith Park, East Hollywood, and Silver Lake. [8] [9] The rancho remained in the Feliz family until 1863. [10] The area's boundaries were the Los Angeles River to the north and east, and the Santa Monica Mountains to the west. [11]
Griffith bequeathed $700,000 and his Los Feliz acreage to the city of Los Angeles to be used for additions to Griffith Park. On August 9, 1969, Charles Manson and six others murdered supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary in their home located at 3301 Waverly Drive in Los Feliz, henceforth known as the Tate–LaBianca murders .
Griffith Park: Original adobe of Rancho Los Feliz, heavily refurbished in the 1920s, now used by park staff 406: Magic Castle: January 17, 1989: 7001 Franklin Ave. Hollywood Heights: 421: Lake Hollywood Reservoir (including Mulholland Dam)
Griffith's entry in the San Quentin prison register. After successfully investing in mining, Griffith J. Griffith purchased Rancho Los Feliz (near the Los Angeles River) in 1882 and started an ostrich farm there. Although ostrich feathers were commonly used in making women's hats in the late 19th century, Griffith's purpose was primarily to ...
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Griffith Jenkins Griffith (January 4, 1850 – July 6, 1919) was a Welsh-born American industrialist and philanthropist.After amassing a significant fortune from a mining syndicate in the 1880s, Griffith donated 3,015 acres (1,220 ha) to the City of Los Angeles that became Griffith Park, and he bequeathed the money to build the park's Greek Theatre and Griffith Observatory.
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