Los Encinos State Historic Park

Pío Pico signed the grant on July 8, 1845, and it went to three men from the mission: Ramón, Francisco and Roque. The spring here had held the Tongva village of Siutcanga for thousands of years. Four years later Francisco and Roque were dead and Ramón had gone north to the gold fields, and what remained of the family sold out to Vicente de la Osa. He built the nine-room adobe. The Garniers added the limestone house and ran sheep. Both bronzes here are Native Daughters work, 1937 and 1950; the state's own plaque is not among them.

What the plaque says

Erected on El Encino Rancho 1849 Marked by Los Angeles Parlor No. 124, Native Daughters of the Golden West, March 21, 1937. This dwelling, built in 1849 by Don Vicente de la Osa, was a favored stopping place for the numerous travelers on El Camino Real. It stands on land that is a part of the one-square-league Rancho El Encino granted in 1845 by Governor Pio Pico to three Indians, Ramon, Francisco, and Roque, whose interests were purchased by Don Vicente. Originally the land was under the jurisdiction of Mission San Fernando Rey founded in 1797. Marked by Los Angeles Parlor No. 124, Native Daughters of the Golden West in 1937 and again in 1950.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Los Encinos State Historic Park — steps away
  A spring that never stopped running, the village it fed for thousands of years, and the rancho that took the ground away.
• Campo de Cahuenga — 7.9 mi
  The treaty that ended the fighting in California was signed on this ground, and the building it was signed in is now under the boulevard.
• Leonis Adobe — 8.1 mi
  Miguel Leonis left his estate to relatives in France and called Espíritu Chijulla his housekeeper; she spent sixteen years proving in court that she was his wife.
• Mission San Fernando Rey de España — 8.1 mi
  The seventeenth Alta California mission, founded at the Tataviam village of Achoicominga, with the largest adobe building in the state standing beside it.

More markers nearby

• Old Trapper's Lodge — 5.1 mi
• Harold Lloyd Estate (Greenacres) — 6.5 mi
• Rómulo Pico Adobe (Ranchito Rómulo) — 7.7 mi
• Campo de Cahuenga — 7.9 mi