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Los Encinos State Historic Park fountain "Encino Hot Springs" Los Angeles Evening Express, September 22, 1923. The Encino Springs are historic artesian springs that were the site of the Siutcanga village of the Tongva-Kizh people, and later provided water for Rancho Los Encinos in what is now the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California.
The old bathhouse was a favorite stop for riders along the Butterfield Stage route in the 1880s. They could refresh themselves from the long dusty trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The bathhouse fell into disrepair as shown here with Alex Abel, caretaker of the ranch under the Amestoys, and was later removed."
Later, after settlement, the artesian springs were used as a water source for Rancho Los Encinos in what is now the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California. In the 1880s it was a rest stop on the Butterfield Stagecoach route. The springs are located in the modern-day Los Encinos State Historic Park.
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 ...
California State Parks operates the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Los Encinos State Historic Park in Encino. [24] 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]
Los Encinos State Historic Park (pictured in 2008) is the site of the village of Siutcanga.. Siutcanga (English: "the place of the oaks"), alternatively spelled Syútkanga, [1] was a Tataviam and Tongva village that was located in what is now Los Encinos State Historic Park near the site of a natural spring. [2]
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They are: Leonis Adobe, Bolton Hall, Rómulo Pico Adobe, the Convento Building at the Mission San Fernando, Campo de Cahuenga, Minnie Hill Palmer House, Los Encinos State Historic Park, Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation, the Old Stage Coach Trail through the Santa Susana Mountains, and the North Hollywood and Van Nuys branch libraries.