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Los Encinos State Historic Park is a state park unit of California, preserving buildings of Rancho Los Encinos. The park is located near the corner of Balboa and Ventura Boulevards in Encino, California, in the San Fernando Valley. The rancho includes the original nine-room de la Ossa Adobe, the two-story limestone Garnier building, a ...
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 ...
Los Encinos State Historic Park 34°09′38″N 118°29′58″W / 34.160556°N 118.499444°W / 34.160556; -118.499444 ( Los Encinos State Historic Encino
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]
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.
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When the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Board was formed in 1962, its first-designated sites were HCM #1 (Leonis Adobe) and HCM #2 (Bolton Hall), both located in the San Fernando/Crescenta Valleys. The oldest building in the Valley is the Convento Building at the Mission San Fernando Rey de España , which was built between 1808 and 1822.
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]