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Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando was a 116,858-acre (472.91 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, granted in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Eulogio F. de Celis. [1]
Mission San Fernando Rey de España was founded at Reyes's original rancho site on September 8, 1797, by Father Fermín Lasuén. The mission's grazing lands extended over the flatlands of the valley, and it also claimed jurisdiction over several smaller valleys to the north and west. From this time, the valley began to be called after the mission.
Rancho San Rafael Los Angeles Rancho Portezuela 1795 Mariano de la Luz Verdugo (located in the San Fernando Valley; [6] grant abandoned c. 1810) Spain Spanish; el portezuelo is a pass Los Angeles Rancho Potrero Chico 1843 Antonio Valenzuela Mexico Ramon Valenzuela, et al. 83.46 acres (33.78 ha) April 4, 1923: 444
The Mission San Fernando Rey de España (named after St. Ferdinand) was founded in 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, an agricultural rancho established by Juan Francisco Reyes for Pueblo de Los Ángeles worked by Ventureño Chumash, Fernandeño (Tongva), and Tataviam laborers.
In 1797, the rancho was selected as the site of Mission San Fernando Rey de España by Spanish missionaries. As a result, Reyes ceded the land to the missionaries and relocated the rancho to a square Spanish league of land in the southern valley. [8] He was later granted more land near Mission La Purísima to the north in what is now Lompoc ...
Kas'ele'ew Peak, below which was the village of Hukxa'oynga or Hu'wam where Rancho El Escorpión was established.. Her father was Odón Chijulla, a Chumash man Humaliwo who had been baptized at the San Fernando Rey de España Mission and was considered a leader (or chief) of the Fernandeños living in the western portion of the San Fernando Valley.
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 ...
Remains of wells built of mission tiles around 1800 by Tongva Indians from the Mission San Fernando Rey de España to provide water to the mission; taken over by the Department of Water and Power in 1919, the 6-acre (24,000 m 2) well site is the oldest existing source of water supply in the city, other than the Los Angeles River [4]