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The Centinela Adobe, also known as La Casa de la Centinela, is a Spanish Colonial style adobe house built in 1834. It is operated as a house museum by the Historical Society of Centinela Valley, and it is one of the 43 surviving adobes within Los Angeles County, California.
The Aguaje de Centinela, or Centinela Springs, was a valued source of local spring water for Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela and what is now southwest Los Angeles and Inglewood in Southern California. The spring was known to prehistoric people and animals but the name aguaje , meaning watering place, comes from Spanish–Mexican era of California ...
Historical Society of Southern California Founded in 1883, the Historical Society of Southern California (HSSC) is the oldest historical society in California. Lemon Grove Historical Society Los Angeles Conservancy , the largest membership-based historic preservation organization in the country.
September 18, 1978 (3657 Lemon St. Riverside: 4: Andreas Canyon: January 8, 1973 (Address Restricted: Palm Springs: 5: Archeological Sites CA-RIV-504 and CA-RIV-773
The home remained in the Strathearn family until 1969, when the dwelling and 5.85 acres (2.37 ha) of surrounding land were donated to the Simi Valley Recreation and Park District. Two rooms of the original adobe remain as part of the Strathearn House, now located in Robert P. Strathearn Historical Park in Simi Valley, California.
Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela was a 2,219-acre (8.98 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California given in 1837 to Ygnacio Machado. [1] The name means "Sentinel of the Waters" in Spanish , and refers to the artesian water in the area exemplified by Centinela Springs .
The California Register program promotes the public acknowledgment and safeguarding of resources possessing architectural, historical, archaeological, and cultural significance. It plays a role in identifying historical resources for both state and local planning, assessing eligibility for state historic preservation grant funding, and ...
Several elements of the park were built during the Great Depression. [21] The swimming pool was dedicated in 1929; [17] the cornerstone of the Veterans’ Memorial Building reads 1934. [22] The massive "History of Transportation" mural by Helen Lundeberg now at Grevillea Park was a WPA project originally installed at Centinela Park in 1939 ...