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Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded as the 20th Spanish mission in the colonial province of Alta California by three priests—Father Narciso Durán from Mission San José, Father Abella from Mission San Francisco de Asís, Father Luis Gíl y Taboada from La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles—on December 14, 1817, four years before Mexico gained independence from Spain.
Remains of wells built of mission tiles around 1800 by Tongva Indians from the Mission San Fernando Rey de España to provide water to the mission; taken over by the Department of Water and Power in 1919, the 6-acre (24,000 m 2) well site is the oldest existing source of water supply in the city, other than the Los Angeles River [4]
The San Rafael Hills contain all or parts of the communities of City Terrace, La Cañada Flintridge, Pasadena, South Pasadena, El Sereno, Monterey Hills, Montecito Heights, Cypress Park, Mount Washington, Glassell Park and foothills surrounding Eagle Rock, east of the Glendale Freeway including Rancho San Rafael and Chevy Chase Canyon in Glendale.
Los Angeles HCM Report for Boyle Heights Archived 2015-01-23 at the Wayback Machine — L.A. Planning Department. Los Angeles HCM Report for the Northeast area; City of Los Angeles Map, with community districts. — via Given Place Media.
The government of the City of Los Angeles operates as a charter city (as opposed to a general law city) under the charter of the City of Los Angeles.The elected government is composed of the Los Angeles City Council with 15 city council districts and the mayor of Los Angeles, which operate under a mayor–council government, as well as several other elective offices.
This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Harbor area of the city of Los Angeles, California, in the United States.There are more than 25 Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments (LAHCM) in this area, and several additional sites have been designated as California Historical Landmarks (CHL) or listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
According to the 2013-2017 American Community Survey and the City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning, [4] Northeast Los Angeles had 243,925 residents. The racial and ethnic breakdown was Latino , 64%, White , 16.7%, Asian , 16.5%; Black , 1.8%, Native American 0.5%, Pacific Islander 0.4%, and Other, 0.8%.
In 2008 the median age for residents was 33, about average for the city and the county. The percentage of never-married men (40.9%) was among the county's highest. [6] According to the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, based on the 2000 census, the neighborhood was "moderately diverse" ethnically, with a high percentage of Latino ...