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Casa de San Pedro was part of the beginning of the Port of Los Angeles. In 1846 the Mexican governor of Alta California, Pío Pico, directed that a 500-vara-square of land (43 acres) facing onto San Pedro Bay be set aside as a government reservation. [2] In 1904 surveyor H.H. Burton inspected Casa de San Pedro for the San Pedro Government ...
Los Angeles Harbor (San Pedro Breakwater) 33°42′23″N 118°14′53″W / 33.7064°N 118.2481°W / 33.7064; -118.2481 ( Los Angeles Harbor Light San Pedro
In 1868 Banning created the Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad, Southern California's first railroad and used it to transport goods from San Pedro Bay to Los Angeles, which soon became a major city in Southern California. [13] 1859 survey map of Rancho San Pedro. San Pedro was a township in the 1860 census.
View of the J. H. Dodson Residence in San Pedro (ca.1895). The Victorian Stick-Eastlake style wooden house was built in 1881 by the Sepúlveda family as a wedding present for their daughter Rudecinda and her husband, James Dodson. It was originally located at the corner of 7th and Beacon Streets in San Pedro.
Harbor View House, formerly the Army and Navy Y.M.C.A., is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM #252) located in the San Pedro section of Los Angeles, California, near the Port of Los Angeles. It is a five-story Spanish Colonial Revival style structure located on a bluff overlooking the harbor.
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Location of Site of Home of Diego Sepúlveda in the Los Angeles metropolitan area Site of Home of Diego Sepúlveda is an adobe home, built by José Diego Sepúlveda (1820–1869) in 1853. This was the first two-story Monterey-type adobe built in Southern California .
1859 survey map of the Rancho San Pedro as awarded to Manuel Dominguez. For many years, a portion of the Rancho San Pedro land grant was contested between the Domínguez and Sepúlveda families through various appeals to Spanish Governors and lawsuits from 1817–1883 and was eventually partitioned into seventeen parcels in 1882. The Sepúlveda ...