WOW.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. From unhoused to high school grad: L.A. ceremony honors ...

    www.aol.com/news/unhoused-high-school-grad-l...

    Janai's mom found shelter and work at the downtown Union Rescue Mission, but it was more than 23 miles away from Monroe High — more than an hour's drive during peak traffic.

  3. Rancho San Francisco - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_San_Francisco

    Rancho San Francisco was a land grant in present-day northwestern Los Angeles County and eastern Ventura County, California. It was a grant of 48,612 acres (19,673 ha) by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Antonio del Valle, a Mexican army officer, in recognition for his service to Alta California. [2] [3] It is not related to the city of San Francisco .

  4. Convento Building (Mission San Fernando) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convento_Building_(Mission...

    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. Mission San Fernando Rey de España - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Fernando_Rey_de...

    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.

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

    www.aol.com/news/tens-millions-stolen-money...

    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.

  7. Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Ex-Mission_San_Fernando

    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 ...

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

    www.aol.com/visit-10-sacred-spanish-missions...

    Adding up the elements of San Fernando Cathedral. If you have passed by the majestic exterior San Fernando Cathedral (115 Main Plaza), with its two bell towers and symmetrical bays, windows and ...

  9. Juan Francisco Reyes (soldier) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Francisco_Reyes_(soldier)

    In 1784, Francisco Reyes received the Spanish land grant, Rancho Los Encinos, which comprised what is now the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. He used the land for cattle ranching. In 1795, however, the Spanish mission founders decided that Rancho Los Encinos would be a favorable location for the Mission San Fernando. Reyes ...