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The park is located near the corner of Balboa and Ventura Boulevards in Encino, California, in the San Fernando Valley. The rancho includes the original nine-room de la Ossa Adobe, the two-story limestone Garnier building, a blacksmith shop, a natural spring, and a pond. The 4.7-acre (1.9 ha) site was established as a California state park in 1949.
The name of the rancho derives from the original designation of the Valley by the Portola expedition of 1769: El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bononia de los Encinos, [3] with encino being the Spanish name for Oaks, after the many native deciduous Valley Oak (Quercus lobata) and evergreen Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) trees across the valley's savannah, which are still found on the park's ...
Rancho El Encino mapped in 1871, before the spring water reservoirs were constructed, showing groves of encinos (), guatamotes (), and the overland stage road. In August 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portola came upon a grove of oak trees (Spanish: encinos) which they named El Valle de la Catalina de Bononia de los Encinos.
Ventura Boulevard follows an ancient pre-Columbian trading trail that served the Tataviam and Tongva village of Siutcanga, which is at least 4,000 years old. [1] [2]Due to natural springs in the area, one of the first inhabited areas of the San Fernando Valley was the land around what is now known as Los Encinos State Historic Park, at the corner of Balboa and Ventura boulevards, which was ...
The park includes the original nine-room de la Ossa Adobe, the Garnier Building, a blacksmith shop, a pond, and a natural spring. [25] The Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area, located in Encino, [26] includes the Woodley Worel/Magnus Cricket Complex. [27] Also included in the basin is the Encino Golf Course and the Balboa Golf Course. [28] [29]
In 1769, the expedition led by explorer Gaspar de Portolà reached the Los Angeles area of California overland from Baja California.Accompanying him were two Franciscan Padres, Junípero Serra and Juan Crespí, who recorded the expedition and identified locations for a proposed network of missions, along which the royal highway (El Camino Real) was eventually built.
Historical map of Spanish North America Map of Spanish America c. 1800 Diagram of Pueblo of Santa Barbara, California (Walter A. Hawley, 1910) U.S. post office application from 1866 shows the four square Spanish leagues of the pre-statehood Los Angeles Pueblo Provincias Ynternas de Nueva España mapped in 1817
Rancho geography remains readily visible in this L.A. County map created the year before the establishment of neighboring Orange County (1888) Federal Writers' Project map of the ranchos of Los Angeles County (1937); appears to be in the same style as many American Guide Series maps so possibly produced but not used for Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs