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Map of Mission San Fernando land claimed by the Roman Catholic Church in 1854; survey depicts the church, cemetery, residence, granary, vineyard, "garden and orchard" and a "water conductor," possibly a zanja. The goals of the missions were, first, to spread the message of Christianity and, second, to establish a Spanish colony.
In 1846, the Mexican government confiscated the missions and secularized the properties. Pio Pico became the owner of the Mission San Fernando, selling it in 1846 to Elogio de Chelis. When John C. Fremont led an American military force into California in 1847, he occupied the Convento and used it as a base of operations. In October 31, 1853 ...
Architectural historian Rexford Newcomb sketched this pair of doors, which display the Spanish "River of Life" pattern, at Mission San Fernando Rey de España in 1916. [ 27 ] Arched door and window openings required the use of wood centering during erection, as did corridor arches and any type of vault or domed construction.
The San Fernando Mission Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery located in the Mission Hills community of the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The property adjoins the San Fernando Mission and Bishop Alemany Catholic High School .
Within two years of the expedition, Serra had founded four missions, [10] including Mission San Gabriel, founded in 1771 and rebuilt in 1774, and Mission San Fernando, founded in 1797. The people enslaved at San Gabriel were referred to as Gabrieleños, while those enslaved at San Fernando were referred to as Fernandeños.
The Mission San Fernando Rey de España (named after St. Ferdinand) was founded in 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, an agricultural rancho established by Juan Francisco Reyes for Pueblo de Los Ángeles worked by Ventureño Chumash, Fernandeño (Tongva), and Tataviam laborers.
Joaquín Romero (1821–), the son of Domingo Romero, who was an overseer at San Fernando Mission from 1816 to 1820, received the El Escorpión de las Salinas rancho lands (non-land grant) from the Mission. He obtained a 5/12 section of land which lay adjacent to Rancho El Escorpión on the northern side (now the Chatsworth Reservoir area). [2] [3]
Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando was a 116,858-acre (472.91 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, granted in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Eulogio F. de Celis. [1]