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West Whittier-Los Nietos (pronunciation ⓘ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, near the San Gabriel River and the San Gabriel River (I-605) Freeway. The population was 25,540 at the 2010 census, up from 25,129 at the 2000 census.
Rancho Los Nietos was one of the first, and the largest, Spanish land concession in Alta California. Located in present-day Los Angeles County and Orange County, California. Rancho Los Nietos was awarded to Manuel Nieto in 1784. After an appeal by the San Gabriel Mission padres, Rancho Los Nietos was later reduced and Rancho Paso de Bartolo was ...
Don Pío Pico, the last Governor of Alta California, acquired Rancho Paso de Bartolo in 1847. His former estate on the rancho is preserved today as the Pío Pico State Historic Park . Rancho Paso de Bartolo also called Rancho Paso de Bartolo Viejo was a 10,075-acre (40.77 km 2 ) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California ...
In 1784, he was granted a provisional grant of the land that would become Rancho Los Nietos by Pedro Fages, the governor of Alta California. [ 1 ] The original grant was 300,000 acres (1,200 km 2 ), but in 1785 Father Sanchez from the San Gabriel Mission contested the Nietos grant on the grounds that it encroached upon the southern portion of ...
Los Angeles Rancho La Merced 1844 Casilda Soto Mexico 01 (1 Spanish league) Francis Pliny F. Temple, et al. 2,363.75 acres (956.58 ha) February 13, 1872: 443 Spanish; la merced is literally a mercy but is also used to describe income earned by labor Los Angeles Case no. 217, Southern District of California: Rancho Los Nietos: 1784 Manuel Nieto ...
Eagle Rock, La Cañada Flintridge: Los Angeles: San Jose de Buenos Ayres: 1843 Manuel Micheltorena: Maximo Alanis 4,438 acres (1,796 ha) 305 SD Westwood: Los Angeles: La Tajauta: 1843 Manuel Micheltorena: Anastasio Avila: 3,559 acres (1,440 ha) 354 SD Watts, Willowbrook: Los Angeles: La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera: 1843 Manuel Micheltorena ...
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 .
The Whittier Line was a Pacific Electric interurban line which traveled between Los Angeles and Whittier via Huntington Park, Rivera, and Los Nietos. [2] A branch of the company's original Long Beach Line, operations along the line began in 1903.