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When the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando grant was patented in 1873, it was surveyed at nearly twenty six square leagues, the single largest land grant in California. [24] Before the De Celis grant, Andrés Pico, brother of Governor Pío Pico, had leased the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando in 1845. In 1853, Andrés Pico acquired an undivided half ...
Mission San Fernando Rey de España was the 17th of 21 Franciscan missions established in Alta California. The Rancho of Francisco Reyes (then the Alcalde of the Pueblo de Los Ángeles ), which included the agricultural settlement of Achooykomenga worked by Ventureño Chumash , Fernandeño (Tongva), and Tataviam laborers, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] was ...
San Diego 32°47′4″N 117°6′23″W / 32.78444°N 117.10639°W / 32.78444; -117.10639 ( Mission San Diego de Serves as a parish church and museum.
Rancho El Rincón de San Pasqual Los Angeles Case no. 173, Southern District of California: Rancho San Pedro: 1784 [f] Juan José Dominguez: Spain Manuel Dominguez: 43,119.13 acres (17,449.69 ha) December 18, 1858: 440 Named for figure of religious significance; Peter, a Roman Catholic saint: Dominguez Rancho, Suanga, Rancho de los Gutierrez ...
Rancho Ex-Mission San Diego was a 58,875-acre (238.26 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California, given in 1846 by Governor Pio Pico to Santiago Argüello. [1]
Portion of an 1880 map depicting the western San Fernando Valley, with Rancho El Escorpión highlighted. María del Espíritu Santo Chijulla, born in 1836, was baptized in the San Fernando Mission. Her father Odón was, most likely, one of the forty petitioners who received a grant from governor Micheltorena on May 3, 1843.
In or around 1797 Reyes ceded this land to the Roman Catholic Church to be the site of Mission San Fernando Rey de España, and relocated his Rancho Encino to one square Spanish league (4,460 acres) of land in the southern valley adjacent to El Camino Real and between the Los Angeles River and Santa Monica Mountains. [4]
[16] [17] [18] The rancho was acquired by Franciscan missionaries after being identified as a suitable site for a mission, and on September 8, 1797 the San Fernando Rey de España Mission was founded, placing most of the valley's land, including the area of North Hills, and its indigenous inhabitants under the mission's jurisdiction. [16] [19]