On this day in 1841, Antonio del Valle, a Mexican soldier and grantee of over 48,000 acres of land that would eventually form ...

"My tribe descends from Mission San Fernando," said Ortega ... tribal territory boundaries that overlap within five Southern California counties. Click here to open this map in a new window.

and the Mission San Fernando Rey, located in Mission Hills, became 17th in the chain of 21 missions along the California coast. By the early 19th century some 56,000 irascible longhorn cattle ...