La Misión Vieja: The Center of Greater Los Angeles

This blog covers the history of La Misión Vieja (Old Mission) in Whittier Narrows where the San Gabriel River has provided the basis for human settlement from the native Indians to modern Angelenos. Please enjoy, leave comments or questions, and let others know about this amazing place at the center of greater Los Angeles.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Misión Vieja: The Ancestral Center of the Los Angeles Region

Before there was a Los Angeles and the vast metropolitan area that surrounds it, the Kizh-Gabrieleño Indians occupied a region that stretche...

Friday, October 17, 2014

The Basye Family of Misión Vieja

The last post concerned the family of Juan Matias Sánchez, co-owner of Rancho La Merced from 1851 onward. Sánchez occupied and then expande...

Monday, August 11, 2014

The Sánchez Family of Misión Vieja

Juan Matias Sánchez was born in New Mexico in 1808 to Juan Cristobal Sanchez and Maria Margarita Silva. Little is known of his life there, ...

Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Temple Family of Misión Vieja

In 1851, shortly after foreclosing on Casilda Soto de Lobo on a loan that used the Rancho La Merced as collateral, William Workman, owner of...

Friday, August 30, 2013

The Lobo Family of Misión Vieja

It was uncommon for Spanish and Mexican-era land grants in California to be made to women, but it did happen in the case of Rancho La Merced...

Thursday, May 16, 2013

The Alvitre Family of Misión Vieja

Among the earliest European-derived families to settle in the Misión Vieja community were the Alvitres. Moreover, members of the family con...

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