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When the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando grant was patented in 1873, it was surveyed at nearly twenty six square leagues, the single largest land grant in California. [24] Before the De Celis grant, Andrés Pico, brother of Governor Pío Pico, had leased the Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando in 1845. In 1853, Andrés Pico acquired an undivided half ...
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 ...
Oldest residence in San Diego. [45] Mission San Miguel Arcángel: San Miguel: 1821 Church The original church burned down in 1806 and was rebuilt out of adobe from 1816 to 1821. [46] Convento Building: Los Angeles: 1822 Convent: The adobe convent is the only original building left of Mission San Fernando Rey de España. [47] Neary-Rodriguez ...
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 ...
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. 18th to 19th-century Catholic religious outposts in California For the establishments in modern-day Mexico, see Spanish missions in Baja California. The locations of the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California. Part of a series on Spanish missions in the Americas of the Catholic Church ...
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]