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  2. Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Fernando Rey de España. / 34.2731; -118.4612. Mission San Fernando Rey de España is a Spanish mission in the Mission Hills community of Los Angeles, California. The mission was founded on 8 September 1797 at the site of Achooykomenga, and was the seventeenth of the twenty-one Spanish missions established in Alta California.

  3. San Fernando Mission Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    The San Fernando Mission Cemetery has been owned and operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese since the founding of the Mission and first burials in 1797. The privately operated Mission Hills Catholic Mortuary is also located on the grounds of the cemetery. San Fernando Mission Cemetery is an active cemetery providing burials, entombments and ...

  4. Convento Building (Mission San Fernando) - Wikipedia

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    The Convento is a large two-story building, measuring approximately 243 feet (74 m) long and 50 feet (15 m) wide. It has four-foot-thick adobe walls and was built in stages between approximately 1808 and 1822. [2] The long portico, sometimes referred to as the colonnade, in front of the building has 20 arches and is the most recognized image of ...

  5. History of the San Fernando Valley - Wikipedia

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    On March 29, 1915, by a vote of 681 to 25, residents of 108,732 acres (440 km 2) of the San Fernando Valley (excluding Rancho El Escorpión and the communities of Owensmouth, Lankershim, Burbank and San Fernando) voted to be annexed by the City of Los Angeles. Owensmouth was annexed in 1917, West Lankershim in 1919, Chatsworth in 1920, and ...

  6. Woodland Hills, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    UTC-7 (PDT) ZIP Code. 91364, 91365, 91367. Area code (s) 747/818. Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California, United States.

  7. Granada Hills, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Granada Hills, Los Angeles. /  34.283°N 118.500°W  / 34.283; -118.500. Granada Hills is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles. The community has a sports program and a range of city recreation centers. The neighborhood has fourteen public and ten private schools.

  8. Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando - Wikipedia

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    Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando was a 116,858-acre (472.91 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, granted in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Eulogio F. de Celis. [1] The grant derives its name from the secularized Mission San Fernando Rey de España, but was called ex-Mission because of a division made of the lands ...

  9. Visit 10 sacred Spanish missions and sites in San ... - AOL

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    This was the first mission in Texas, founded in 1690 as San Francisco de los Tejas in East Texas. In 1731, its friars and converts were moved to the San Antonio River area, and it was renamed ...