Rancho Los Alamitos, is a microcosm of the regional story. In the intersecting lives of native people, owners and workers who once called this place home and transformed its land, is the richness, drama and complexity of California’s legacy.
Change and continuity reverberate throughout the history of The Rancho. Today Rancho Los Alamitos is 7.5-acres, a rare vestige of the original 300,000-acre Los Coyotes land concession given to Manuel Nieto in 1790, for his service on the Gaspar de Portolá expedition to California under the Spanish Crown. However, the story of Rancho Los Alamitos precedes these first newcomers, for the historic site is also part of the ancestral village of Puvungna, the traditional place of origin of the native Gabrielino-Tongva people of the Los Angeles Basin, and still a sacred place.
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