 | John Shertzer Hittell - Agriculture - 1863 - 492 pages
...Sacramento. § 278. Los Angeles. — The town of Los Angeles, formerly called Pueblo de los Angeles, or the Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles — the town of the Queen of the Angels — is the largest town in the southern part of the state, and has a population of about 3,500. It... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - California - 1874 - 490 pages
...Railroad. § 49. Los Angeles. — The town of Los Angeles, formerly called Pueblo de los Angeles, or the Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles — the town of the Queen of the Angels — the largest o » oo town in the southern part of the State, had a population of 5,728 in 1870.... | |
 | Montgomery Gibbs - 1883 - 468 pages
...Los ANGELES (Hotels : Cosmopolitan, Pico, Si Charles, and Weavers). The Spanish name of the city was "Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles," the town of the Queen of the Angels. It was founded in 1780. The town stands on the western bank of the Los Angeles River, and climbs up... | |
 | Edwin Brownson Everitt - Overland journeys to the Pacific - 1883 - 240 pages
...strange commingling of life in the streets of charming Los Angeles. From Itinerary. "Los Angeles, or the pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles (the town of the Queen of the Angels), to give its old Spanish Mexican title in full, is the capital of the county of the same name, and the... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - Pacific Coast - 1885 - 344 pages
...adjacent portion of Mexico. The City of Los Angeles, styled by the Spaniards when they laid it out, El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles — the Town of the Queen of the Angels — founded September 4th, 1781, is situated 14 miles east from the Pacific, at the mouth of a gorge... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - United States - 1892 - 946 pages
...buildings. The metropolis of Southern California was founded by twelve Spanish soldiers, who named it El Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles, the Town of the Queen of the Angels. The mild and delightful climate of this valley has made it a sanitarium for thousands of Eastern people,... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - Reference - 1896 - 400 pages
...while either Lotharingia or Lothari regnum might become Lot-règne and then LORRAINE in French. Lps Angeles, in California, was founded in 1781 under...Scotch counties. Skene holds it was the Regio Loidis of Baeda (654). It is called Lothene in the Saxon Chronicle, Laodonia in an early charter, and Lethead... | |
 | John Walton Caughey, LaRee Caughey - History - 1977 - 532 pages
...solares, or house lots, and suertes, or planting fields. With that, the town was born. It was called El Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles, the Town of the Queen of the Angels. Neve reported the founding on November 19, 1781, and Croix sent the news on to Spain, February 28,... | |
 | William McNeil - Sports & Recreation - 2002 - 340 pages
...settlers were a potpourri of races, including Spaniards, Mulattos, Mestizos, Blacks, and Indians. El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles (The Town of the Queen of Angels) was officially settled on September 4, 1781. According to the University of Southern California... | |
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Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles, the ' town of the Queen of the Angels. 