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Spanish Rancho
Angeles Mesa and the Baldwin Hills, a
part of the Rancho Cienega O' Paso de
La Tijera, the R
Scissors, was once the property of E. J.
(Lucky) Baldwin, and the unsubdivided
acreage, some producing princely royalties
in oil, still belongs to his heirs. Below
the south boundary of
"Lucky" Baldwin's rancho, is a section of
land not ir
In 1781 when Los Angeles
a plot of ground no larger
block was sufficient
church, the plaza, and the homes of the
settlers. But because land then had no
particular value and to encourage the upbuilding of the little pueblo the King of
Spain granted to it four square leagues.
Seventy years later after California had
become a State in the United States and
Los Angeles had
pueblo for its American counterpart "city"
it had grown to include several city blocks
1 then it made no great inroads
into the 17,172 acres of the pueblo grant.
Surrounding the pueblo grant were giant
cattle ranchos, private
By 1880 the growth of the city had been
t least part of the original
pueblo boundaries had been reached and
a fixed by street names—Indiana
n Boulevard,
n called Santa Monica avenue, on the
south, Hoover street on the west and
e, originally Benefit
h boundary. The city's inva-
o the surrounding cattle ranchos
spread in all directions save one and
seemingly never to end.   Today the city
Into the Rancho San Rafael, oldest o
first marched t
and on that celebrated rancho, granted t(
Jose  Maria   Verdugo  in   1784,   now   liv
many    thousands    of    people.      It    wa;
natural that San Rafael s
settled, for its boundaries extended d
both the Los Angeles River and the Ar-
the North Broadway
bridge, and included in this way a le-ge
pie-shaped piece of land out of the otherwise square pueblo grant. Garvanza, York
Valley, Eagle Rock and Glassell P
all part of Rancho San Rafael, as
the neighboring city of Glendale.
Los Feliz
Los Felis, from which it ti
portion of its distance
through Griffith Park, a gift to Los Angeles from Col. Griffith Jenkins Griffith.
Although the rancho was comparatively
and although the Griffith Park gift
comprised 4071 of its acres, the remainder,
extending from the Los Angeles River
westerly to Wilton Place in Hollywood, is
180.
from Melrose avenue
Sunset   Boulevard   and   from   Gower
to Seward street, originally called
Colegrove, was at one time deeded to the
East of Palms lies Rancho Rincon de
Los Bueyes granted in 1821 by Jose de La
Guerra y Noriega, Spanish grandee of
Santa Barbara, acting for the King of
iguera. Higuera Road
to named for
South of Wilshire Boulevard, west of
Arlington avenue, east of Genessee avenue and north of Exposition Boulevard
lies Rancho Las Cienegas, crossed by Pico
Boulevard, Venice Boulevard,
street and Jeffersc
intermediate streets. Francisco Avita received the grant o' Las Cienegas and perpetuated his name in history by building
pueblo
home, the Avila adobe, recently
destruction, restored and made the
chief point
Upon Francisco's death Rancho Las
Cienegas passed to his son and two
daughters. One of the daughters, Luisa
Aliva de Garfias,
rancho for $2000. The other daughter,
Avila de Rimpau, retained the
ownership of her property and in this
way founded the Rimpau fortune. Rimpau Boulevard is named for the Rimpau
Rancho El Encino, the r
oaks, on Ventura Boulevard from  Sherman   Oaks  t
originally the property of three Indians.
The Rancho Tujunga, once the cattle
rancho of Pedro and Francisco Lopez, Is
now partly within the city limits of Los
Rancho Ex-Mission de San Fernando.
original Mission land of the Mission San
Fernando, largest of the grants, bids fair
any other rancho
or even any group of ranchos, for within
its 121.000 acres lie North Hollywood 'formerly Lankershim,) Van Nuys, Universal
City, Studio City, Zelzah, Canoga Park
(formerly Owensmouth) and Pacoima, besides the independently incorporated city
of San Fernando—with tens of thousands
dens and more lawns in a modern American city on an'old Spanish rancho.