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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.
Hacienda de la Paz is a large estate property in the city of Rolling Hills, on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles area of Southern California. [1] It was designed by the 2010 Driehaus Prize winner Rafael Manzano Martos with decorator Manuel Gavira Sanjuan [2] for owner/builder John Z. Blazevich [3] and is Martos' only project in the Americas. [4]
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 ...
Pacheco Adobe, built 1835 by Salvio Pacheco on Rancho Monte del Diablo The Guajome Adobe, built 1852–53 as the seat of Rancho Guajome. In Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California, ranchos were concessions and land grants made by the Spanish and Mexican governments from 1775 [1] to 1846.
Francisco Ávila (1772–1832) was a wealthy ranchero and alcalde (mayor) of the pueblo of Los Angeles 1810–1811. Ávila was a Spaniard native of El Fuerte, New Spain (present-day Sinaloa, Mexico), which at the time was part of Spain. He was one of several sons of Cornelio Ávila and his wife. Francisco came to Los Angeles sometime after 1794.
Hacienda La Vega, Caracas. The Hacienda La Vega is a historical monument in Caracas, Venezuela, and one of the first family properties of the Herrera family in Latin America. [11] Today, it remains as a symbolic place for current generations and is open to the public as a historical landmark. [12]
Yet Spain only edged fully into consideration as an obvious international big shoot locale thanks to the massive success of HBO’s “Games of Thrones,” which shot in Spain from Season 5 in ...
Antonio Feliz adobe in 2015. 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.