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Los Cerritos Ranch House, also known as Rancho Los Cerritos or Casa de los Cerritos, in Long Beach, California, was "the largest and most impressive adobe residence erected in southern California during the Mexican period". [3] Los Cerritos means "the little hills" in English. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.
In 1866 Flint, Bixby expanded further, buying the 27,000-acre Rancho Los Cerritos. [4] Jotham was the manager of Rancho Los Cerritos and later bought a half interest in it through his own firm, J. Bixby & Company. [4] [1] By the 1870s, sheep ranching was in decline in southern California and Jotham Bixby began to sell off this land for ...
Rancho Los Cerritos was a 27,054-acre (109.48 km 2) 1834 land grant in present-day southern Los Angeles County and Orange County, California [1] [2] The grant was the result of a partition of the Rancho Los Nietos grant. "Cerritos" means "little hills" in Spanish. The rancho lands include the present-day cities of Cerritos, Paramount ...
Los Cerritos (sometimes called Los Cerritos/Virginia Country Club) is a neighborhood with approximately 700 homes and 2,000 residents located within the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach, California. Established in 1906, the Los Cerritos neighborhood has been used by the film industry of Hollywood with its historic, estate-sized homes. It ...
Until the early 1920s California Heights was part of the Bixby Ranch (now Rancho Los Cerritos) and was used primarily as grazing land.It was the discovery of oil on Signal Hill and the ensuing land boom in 1921 that caused the Jotham Bixby Company to subdivide and sell off lots in the California Heights tract.
Los Cerritos Ranch House, after restoration. Photo by Daniel Cathcart, March 8th, 1934. In 1843, he purchased Rancho Los Cerritos from his wife's relatives, the Cota family. His 1844 adobe survives as part of Los Cerritos Ranch House, a National Historic Landmark site. Both Temple and his ranch house played roles in the Mexican-American War.
Multiple wildfires are causing devastation in the greater Los Angeles area, destroying homes, businesses and landscapes. Before-and-after images offer a glimpse of how the blazes have affected the ...
Location of Los Angeles County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California, excluding the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena.