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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 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 ...
Rancho Los Encinos (Ranch of Holm Oaks) was established in 1845 when a large parcel of former Mission San Fernando land was granted to three Mission Indians by governor Pio Pico. Many ranchos were created after the secularization of the California missions , which began in 1834.
T.R. Craig Residence “Peppergate Ranch” March 9, 2011: 8431 Pinelake Drive: West Hills "One-story single-family residence, designed by Paul R. Williams in the Ranch Style, built in 1939. [17] [18] 1078: North Hollywood Masonic Temple: January 27, 2015: 5122 Tujunga Avenue: North Hollywood: Exterior only. Designed by Robert Stacy-Judd. "A ...
The ranch's residence was designed by master architect Paul R. Williams (1894–1980) in the Ranch Style. [64] It was built in 1939 for Talton R. Craig, founder of the Craig Movie Supply Company. The T.R. Craig Residence is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (#992) (in 2011), located on Pinelake Drive.
The Topanga Ranch Motel was built in Topanga State Park in 1929 by William Randolph Hearst, the publisher and politician who founded and developed the Hearst Communications empire.
Rancho El Encino mapped in 1871, before the spring water reservoirs were constructed, showing groves of encinos (), guatamotes (), and the overland stage road. In August 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portola came upon a grove of oak trees (Spanish: encinos) which they named El Valle de la Catalina de Bononia de los Encinos.
Following the conventions of the California Land Commission records, the default alphabetization of this list begins after the Spanish-language articles (el, la, las, los) and prepositions (de, del), so Rancho Los Encinos is sorted by the E in Encinos, Rancho de los Palos Verdes is sorted by the P in Palos, etc.