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t. e. The history of the San Fernando Valley from its exploration by the 1769 Portola expedition to the annexation of much of it by the City of Los Angeles in 1915 is a story of booms and busts, as cattle ranching, sheep ranching, large-scale wheat farming, and fruit orchards flourished and faded. Throughout its history, settlement in the San ...
Shadow Ranch is a historic ranch house, built from 1869-1872 using adobe and redwood lumber, on the original Workman Ranch in the western San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. For much of the 20th century it was in Canoga Park, but it is now within the boundaries of the West Hills community. The park is also allegedly haunted, owing ...
Only a few historic structures and an 8,000 square feet (740 m 2) ranch house, built in the 1970s, occupy the 13,300 acres (5,400 ha). Benjamin Coates purchased the land in the 1970s after Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a purchase that would have made Guejito a state park. Coates purchased an additional 8,700 acres (3,500 ha) of surrounding land ...
Rancho del Cielo is a ranch located atop the Santa Ynez Mountain range northwest of Santa Barbara, California. For more than 20 years, it was the vacation home of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. The 688-acre (278 ha) ranch's Spanish name translates to Sky's Ranch or Heaven's Ranch in English. In 1974, Reagan's family purchased the ranch, and he ...
The Newland House Museum is located at 19820 Beach Boulevard in Huntington Beach, California, 92648 (33°40′35″N 117°59′14″W), and is managed by the Huntington Beach Historical Society. Constructed in 1898 by William Taylor Newland and Mary Juanita DeLapp Newland, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and is ...
Suburban development in Irvine Ranch in 1975 The developing urban core in the city of Irvine in 2010. By 1918, 60,000 acres (240 km 2) of lima beans were grown on the Irvine Ranch. Two Marine Corps facilities, MCAS El Toro and MCAS Tustin, were built during World War II on ranch land sold to the government. James Irvine II died in 1947 at the ...
July 7, 1981. Rancho Los Alamitos takes its name from an 1834 Mexican partition of the 1784 Rancho Los Nietos, a Spanish concession, covering an area in present-day California 's southwestern Los Angeles County and northwestern Orange County. Los Alamitos means the Little Cottonwoods or Poplars in Spanish, after the native Fremont Cottonwood ...
The ranch-style house is constructed with Mediterranean Revival elements and of local rock from the Whitewater River. [ 22 ] [ 118 ] [ 119 ] The Club at Morningside and Sunnylands were added to the city's Register of Historic Places due to President George H. W. Bush 's official summit with Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu in Rancho Mirage on March ...