Before Los Angeles became the bloated metropolis that I call home, it was once rolling valleys, soft brown grass, some small trees, and lovely. Course, that's dead, the biggest reminders of the yesteryear I wish I knew are along SR-57. For anyone interested, I decided to put all the original ranchos in Los Angeles around 1848, if you wonder why a rancho does not become a city (cities), it was probably public land.
Legend
- Rancho (Date of Issue; Notes)
The Ranchos
- Aguaje de Centenela
- Azuza (1837, 1837)
- Boca de Santa Mónica (1828)
- Ciénega o Paso de la Tijera (1843)
- Crenshaw district (Los Angeles)
- El Encino (1845)
- El Escorpión (1845)
- El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles (1845; The original city of Los Angeles)
- Ex-Mission San Fernando (1846)
- Isla de Santa Catalina (?; Catalina Island)
- La Ballona
- La Brea
- Hancock Park district (Los Angeles)
- La Cañada
- La Merced (?)
- La Puente (1845)
- La Puente, Hacienda Heights, Industry, Walnut
- Los Alamitos (1784)
- Los Feliz (1796)
- Los Palos Verdes (1821)
- Paso de Bartolo Viejo (1835)
- San Antonio (1810)
- (Areas south and east of Los Angeles)
- Santa Anita (1841)
- Santa Gertrudis (1784)
- San José (1837)
- San Pascual (1843)
- San Pedro (1784)
- San Rafael (1784, 1789)
- San Vicente y Santa Mónica (1828)
- Topanga Malibu Sequit (1804)
Sources
Antonio José Ricos-Bustamante and Pedro Castillo. An Illustrated History of Mexican Los Angeles, 1781-1985, pp. 18-19.