Sixteen round brass plaques embedded in the circular sidewalk that surrounds the plaza provide additional detail on the eleven founding families and other information about the founding of Los Angeles
By J. J. Prats, December 4, 2018
The Founders of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Marker at the Plaza
On Paseo de la Plaza at Olvera Street on Paseo de la Plaza.
The Founders of the City of Los Angeles Lara · Mesa · Moreno · Rosas · Camero · Rosas · Navarro · Villavicencio · Rodriguez · Quintero · Vanegas
The names of the eleven founders of Los Angeles, originally known as El Pueblo de la . . . — — Map (db m162787) HM
On Paseo de la Plaza at Olvera Street on Paseo de la Plaza.
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Manuel Camero came from Acaponeta, Nayarit, and María Tomasa García came from . . . — — Map (db m162793) HM
On Paseo de la Plaza at Olvera Street on Paseo de la Plaza.
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José Fernando de Velasco Lara came from Cadiz, Spain, and his wife, María Antonia . . . — — Map (db m162801) HM
On Los Angeles Street at Paseo de la Plaza on Los Angeles Street.
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Antonio Mesa and his wife, María Ana Gertrudis López came from Alamos, Sonora. . . . — — Map (db m162806) HM
On Los Angeles Street at Paseo de la Plaza on Los Angeles Street.
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José Moreno and his wife, María Guadalupe Pérez, came from Rosario, Sinaloa. José . . . — — Map (db m162803) HM
On Los Angeles Street at Paseo de la Plaza on Los Angeles Street.
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José Antonio Navarro and his wife, María Regina Dorotea Soto, came from Rosario, . . . — — Map (db m162805) HM
On Los Angeles Street at Paseo de la Plaza on Los Angeles Street.
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Pablo Rodríguez came from Real de Santa Rosa, Jalisco, and his wife, María Rosalia . . . — — Map (db m162807) HM
On Los Angeles Street at Paseo de la Plaza on Los Angeles Street.
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Luis Quintero came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, and his wife, María Petra Rubio came . . . — — Map (db m162808) HM
On Pueblo de Los Angeles Plaza at Sanchez St on Pueblo de Los Angeles Plaza.
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Basilio Rosas came from Nombre de Dios, Durango, and his wife, Maria Manuela . . . — — Map (db m162859) HM
On Pueblo de Los Angeles Plaza at Sanchez St on Pueblo de Los Angeles Plaza.
The Founders of the City of Los Angeles Lara · Mesa · Moreno · Rosas · Camero · Rosas · Navarro · Villavicencio · Rodriguez · Quintero · Vanegas
Alejandro Rosas, son of Basilio Rosas and Manuela Hernández, married Juana Maria . . . — — Map (db m162861) HM
On North Main Street at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Plaza on North Main Street.
The Founders of the City of Los Angeles Lara · Mesa · Moreno · Rosas · Camero · Rosas · Navarro · Villavicencio · Rodriguez · Quintero · Vanegas
José Vanegas came from Real de Bolaños, Jalisco, and his wife María Bonifanta . . . — — Map (db m162864) HM
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Antonio Feliz Clemente Villavicencio was from the city of Chihuahua and his wife . . . — — Map (db m162867) HM
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The village of Yangna is most closely associated with the founding of Los . . . — — Map (db m162868) HM
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In 1542, Captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo “discovered” California while . . . — — Map (db m162879) HM
On North Main Street at Paseo Luis Olivares and Paseo de la Plaza on North Main Street.
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The Los Angeles pueblo encompassed a square of about five and a half miles on each . . . — — Map (db m162882) HM
Near Olvera Street just east of Main Street, on the left when traveling south.
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Before 1850, the chief executive of the pueblo was the alcalde, who sat on . . . — — Map (db m55296) HM