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Sanchez Adobe de Rancho La Cienega o Paso de la Tijera. The adobes, with thick walls and high, redwood-beamed ceilings, were once the center of the rancho. In the 1920s, an addition was built linking the structures and the building was converted into a larger clubhouse by the Sunset Golf Course. [ 15 ]
Rancho Las Ciénegas was a 4,439-acre (17.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California given in 1823 to Francisco Avila by Governor Luis Antonio Argüello. [1] " La Ciénega" is derived from the Spanish word ciénega , which means swamp or marshland and refers to the natural springs and wetlands in the area between ...
The Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex, previously known as the Rancho Cienega Recreation Center, is a multibuilding sports complex in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles. [1] The complex is named after Michelle and Barack Obama , where Barack Obama held a rally at the center in 2007. [ 2 ]
Rancho Potrero de la Cienaga is one of the three ranchos that made up the Rancho Potreros de San Juan Capistrano.Its boundary included in the spring watered mountain valley pastures of Round Potrero and Potrero de la Cienaga, in the upper reach of San Mateo Creek in the Santa Ana Mountains in the present day Cleveland National Forest in western Riverside County, United States.
La Cienega Boulevard is named after Rancho Las Cienegas Mexican land grant roughly in the region now called "West Los Angeles." The Spanish phrase la ciénaga translates into English as "the swamp " and the area named "Las Ciénegas" was a continual marshland due to the course of the Los Angeles River through that area prior to a massive ...
In the late 1940s the city transportation master plan included building a new north–south freeway, the Laurel Canyon Freeway-SR-170, that would have bisected the Baldwin Hills and park site where La Cienega Boulevard currently crosses the hills. Between 1947 and 1951, the Baldwin Hills Reservoir was built here.
After the death of Tomas, "a patent was granted his estate for four thousand or more acres" at Rancho Cienega y Paso de la Tijera. [5] In 1970, the boundaries of the rancho were described in then-modern terms as "Exposition Blvd. to Slauson Ave. and from La Cienega east to 1st Ave., then a jog back to 4th Ave., midway between Slauson and ...
The two square league Rancho Ciénega de los Paicines grant was given to Angel María Castro and his son-in-law José Antonio Rodriguez. Angel María Dolores Castro (1794–??), son of Josef Macario Castro, was a soldier at San Jose and Branciforte and married María Ysabel Butron (daughter of Manuel Josef Butron and Maria Ygnacia Emigdia Higuera)(1796–1848) in 1812.