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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 ...
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 land of the grant includes Los Feliz and Griffith Park, and was bounded on the east by ...
Chicken Boy. Chicken Boy is a ... Community Beautification Grant, City of Los Angeles, 2005-2006. California Preservation Foundation, Three Minute Success Story, 2009.
The California Community Foundation (CCF) is a philanthropic organization located in Los Angeles, California. Foundation Center, an independent nonprofit organization, ranks it among the top 100 foundations in the nation by asset size and total giving.
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.
Rancho Santa Gertrudes was a 21,298-acre (86.19 km 2) 1834 Mexican land grant, in present-day Los Angeles County, California, resulting from a partition of Rancho Los Nietos. A former site of Nacaugna, the rancho lands included the present-day cities of Downey, Santa Fe Springs and the northern part of Norwalk. [1] [2]
The origins of Casa de los Gobernadores lie in 1967, when a group of citizens raised $200,000 to acquire the land as a prospective site for a new governor's mansion. [1] Amongst the donors were Leonard Firestone and Holmes Tuttle. [2] The Carmichael property was subsequently conveyed to the Government of California by grant deed in 1969. [1]
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho La Tajauta was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and the grant was patented to Anastasio's ...