Toluca Lake, Los Angeles
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==History== |
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The [[Tongva people]] have lived in the [[San Fernando Valley]] and the [[Los Angeles |
The [[Tongva people]] have lived in the [[San Fernando Valley]] and the [[Los Angeles Basin]] for 8,000 years.{{cite web |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2006-03-03-prehistoric-mill_x.htm |title=Prehistoric milling site found in California |work=[[USA Today]] |date=March 3, 2006 |access-date=February 2, 2016}} The Tongvan settlement [[Cahuenga, California|Cahuenga]] used the springs and marsh in the Toluca Lake locale for water, fishing, hunting, harvesting, and building supplies ([[Schoenoplectus acutus|tule plants]]).[http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/980/files/sspshp%20ethnohistory.pdf SSPSHP ethnohistory] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100314182734/http://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/980/files/sspshp%20ethnohistory.pdf |date=2010-03-14 }} from [[California State Parks]] |
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After the Spanish conquest in the 1790s of [[Las Californias]], the [[San Fernando Valley]], including the "Toluca Lake locale", became the extended property of the [[Mission San Fernando Rey de España]]. After the 1823 [[Mexican War of Independence|Independence of Mexico]], the [[secularization]] of missions in [[Alta California]] included the issuing of a [[Ranchos of California|Mexican land grant]] for [[Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando]].Ogden Hoffman, 1862, ''Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California'', Numa Hubert, San Francisco The extreme eastern end of the lake was within the 1843 [[Rancho Providencia]] grant to Vincente de la Osa.[http://historicparks.org/documents/DeLaOssaHistory.pdf Brief History of Vicente de la Ossa and Family] In 1862, [[Pío Pico]] sold his share of the Ex-San Fernando Mission land, the entire southern half of the Valley below Roscoe Boulevard, to [[Isaac Lankershim]] (operating as the San Fernando Farm Homestead Association) in 1869. In 1873, Isaac Lankershim's son, [[James Boon Lankershim]], and future son-in-law, [[Isaac Newton Van Nuys]], took over management of the property, including the lake at Toluca. During the 1880s, the San Fernando Farm Homestead Association was succeeded by the Los Angeles Farm & Milling Company.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} |
After the Spanish conquest in the 1790s of [[Las Californias]], the [[San Fernando Valley]], including the "Toluca Lake locale", became the extended property of the [[Mission San Fernando Rey de España]]. After the 1823 [[Mexican War of Independence|Independence of Mexico]], the [[secularization]] of missions in [[Alta California]] included the issuing of a [[Ranchos of California|Mexican land grant]] for [[Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando]].Ogden Hoffman, 1862, ''Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California'', Numa Hubert, San Francisco The extreme eastern end of the lake was within the 1843 [[Rancho Providencia]] grant to Vincente de la Osa.[http://historicparks.org/documents/DeLaOssaHistory.pdf Brief History of Vicente de la Ossa and Family] In 1862, [[Pío Pico]] sold his share of the Ex-San Fernando Mission land, the entire southern half of the Valley below Roscoe Boulevard, to [[Isaac Lankershim]] (operating as the San Fernando Farm Homestead Association) in 1869. In 1873, Isaac Lankershim's son, [[James Boon Lankershim]], and future son-in-law, [[Isaac Newton Van Nuys]], took over management of the property, including the lake at Toluca. During the 1880s, the San Fernando Farm Homestead Association was succeeded by the Los Angeles Farm & Milling Company.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} |
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