Encino
Michael Crosby
Jun 2009 · Arcadia Publishing
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About this eBook
The San Fernando Valley area that became the modern city of Encino has gone through a surprisingly international sequence of ownership, beginning with Native American tribes, then the Spanish and Californios, followed by the French, Basques, and Americans. In the postWorld War II boom, Encino became an affluent enclave of those who portrayed all of the above on the screen: Hollywood movie and television stars. Encino originated around an artesian spring that served for several thousand years as the gathering place of three tribes: the Fernandeo, Tongva, and Chumash. This spring, which was documented in Fr. Juan Crespis diary during the Portola Expedition in 1769, today still provides water within the grounds of Los Encinos State Historic Park. El encino is Spanish for the oak, and the area was so named for the vast panorama of oak groves covering it.
About the author
Author Michael Crosby is a librarian, historian, and archivist who grew up in the San Fernando Valley. A graduate of California State University, Northridge, and the University of California, Los Angeles, Crosby has served as president, vice president, and archivist of the Los Encinos Docent Association at Los Encinos State Historic Park, where he has volunteered since 1986.
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