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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. 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 ...

  4. Sepulveda Transit Corridor - Wikipedia

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    Sepulveda Transit Corridor. The Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project is a two-phased planned transit corridor project that aims to connect the Los Angeles Basin to the San Fernando Valley through Sepulveda Pass in Los Angeles, California, by supplementing the existing I-405 freeway through the pass. The corridor would partly parallel I-405, and ...

  5. Tens of millions stolen from money storage facility in one of ...

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    NBC Los Angeles reported that it occurred in the 15000 block of Roxford Street in Sylmar in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. ... Its mission is to protect its clients' assets and operations ...

  6. Butterfield Overland Mail in California - Wikipedia

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    The Cahuenga stop was between San Fernando Mission station and Los Angeles and the junction point between divisions one and two of the route. The Butterfield Overland Mail in California was created by the United States Congress on March 3, 1857, and operated until June 30, 1861.

  7. Union Rescue Mission - Wikipedia

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    The Union Rescue Mission, commonly abbreviated as the URM, is a Christian homeless shelter in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest in the city [1] and the largest private homeless shelter in the United States. [2] The organization behind the URM is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit that was established in 1891.

  8. History of the San Fernando Valley - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Our Lady of the Valley - Wikipedia

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    Los Angeles. Our Lady of the Valley is a large Catholic church and school located in the Canoga Park section of Los Angeles, California. It is the oldest parish in the western San Fernando Valley, having been established in 1921. When the parish was established, the western Valley was sparsely populated, and most of the 620 parishioners were ...