Today I am looking for a topic for A documentary for my students to create. I think it will be on Don Antonio Maria Lugo. So I think the first thing to do is to find information about the man so they can start to create ideas on how to present it.
TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT DON ANTONIO LUGO. ANY NEW INFORMATION WILL GET EXTRA CREDIT FOR THE FIRST ONE TO POST. YOU MUST ALSO INCLUDE WHERE YOU GET THE INFORMATION FROM.
In 1771 Antonio Lugo was a 35-year-old corporal in the Spanish army and was given a land grant of more than 29,514 acres (119.44 km2), which today is known as the cities of Bell Gardens, Bell, Maywood, Vernon, Huntington Park, Walnut Park, Cudahy, South Gate, Lynwood and Commerce. The land grant was given as reward for his military service during the establishment of the Franciscan Missions in California while being the attendant of colonization for the area. While stationed at San Antonio de Padua Mission near Salinas, California, Antonio Lugo’s son Don Antonio Maria Lugo was born in 1783. Later as a young man, Don Antonio, using this large amount of undeveloped territory given to his father, Lugo built one of the largest ranches in the history of the state of California. Don Antonio then built an adobe home on the ranch, which he named Rancho San Antonio. There, Lugo raised cattle and became one of the most respected members of the community, so much that he was given a term as Mayor of Los Angeles. He built several adobe homes within the boundaries of the grant. One of the adobe houses, built in 1795, is the oldest house in Los Angeles County and is still standing at 7000 Gage Ave. By the time Don Antonio was in his sixties, he had amassed thousands of acres of property. Although he sold some of the land, the majority of it was lost when California became a part of the union in 1850. One of his nine children, Vicente, married and built a two-story adobe home in 1850, located at 6360 Gage Ave. A daughter of Don Antonio Maria married Stephen C. Foster, Mayor of Los Angeles in 1854 and lived in an adobe house just east of 6820 Foster Bridge Road, now marked by a parking lot. A granddaughter of Antonio Maria Lugo married Wallace Woodworth, an early-day merchant and civic leader in Los Angeles. Their eldest son, Joseph, built a two-story colonial style house at 6820 Foster Bridge Road in 1924.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Gardens,_California Taylor Bliszcz
"At various times, Don Antonio Maria Lugo was the Alcalde (Mayor) of Los Angeles" -From http://www.sogate.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Detail/CID/67/NavID/34/ Sean T. Robertson P.3
On June 21, 1842, Rancho San Bernardino was granted to Don Antonio Maria Lugo, his sons and his nephews, who grazed approximately 4000-6000 cattle in the area
On June 21, 1842, Rancho San Bernardino was granted to Don Antonio Maria Lugo, his sons and his nephews, who grazed approximately 4000-6000 cattle in the area
Born about 1762, in the mission of San Antonio de Padua Don Antonio Lugo when but a boy joined the array of the King of Spain, and was rewarded for faithful and brilliant service, with vast land grants in southern California. To his original land grant, the San Antonio Rancho, which was named after him, he gradually added vast properties. It was said of him in the early days that he could ride from San Diego to Sonoma a distance of nearly 700 miles, without once leaving his own land, changing horses daily from his own stock and eating no food but that raised on his property. He was the owner of much of which is now the city of Los Angeles, and the San Antonio Rancho was Located and around the present site of Compton. As late as 1841 he was the grantee of the Santa Ana Del Chino. Such princely possessions alone were enough to distinguish the old Don from his follows. But in addition he enjoyed the reputation of being the best horseman in Southern California, which was saying a lot for a day when every man possessed a horse, and horsemanship was the greatest art. Finally and above all, Don Antonio was noted for his wide and princely hospitality. Don Antonio Maria Lugo and his wife, Dona Delores Ruiz de Lugo had five children, each of whom took an active part on both social and business activities of early Los Angeles. They were Jose Maria, Jose Del Carmen, Vincente Jesus and Merced Lugohttp://members.tripod.com/~HMART/Family_Lugo.html
"In the Nineteenth Century, until 1860, the area which now is the City Of Bell is Los Angeles County, was part of the 30,000 - acre Rancho San Antonio (Lugo grant)Rancho San Antonio. This Rancho had been settled by Don Antonio Maria Lugo, a Spanish aristocrat and former soldier." -From http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/272702
"between 1810 and 1813, Don Antonio had obtained permission from the Spanish King to settle on the Rancho; and, later, in about 1838, the King formally granted the land to Don Antonio" -From http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/272702
The earliest recorded landowner in the Fontana area was Don Antonio Maria Lugo, who received a land grant in 1813.http://www.fontana.org/main/history.htm
By the time Don Antonio was in his sixties, he had amassed thousands of acres of property. Although he sold some of the land, the majority of it was lost when California became a part of the union in 1850. Later as a young man, Don Antonio, using this large amount of undeveloped territory given to his father, Lugo built one of the largest ranches in the history of the state of California. Don Antonio then built an adobe home on the ranch, which he named Rancho San Antonio. There, Lugo raised cattle and became one of the most respected members of the community, so much that he was given a term as Mayor of Los Angeles. He built several adobe homes within the boundaries of the grant. One of the adobe houses, built in 1795, is the oldest house in Los Angeles County and is still standing at 7000 Gage Ave.Today, only a 2.4-square-mile (6.2 km2) city, Bell Gardens maintains only a small portion of the original Lugo land grant Their effort ensures that Don Antonio Maria Lugo’s name and his historic home will be preserved for future generations of Bell Gardens residents and Californians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Gardens,_California
1841 - In 1841 Don Antonio Maria Lugo applied to the Mexican government for a grant of the Rancho de San Bernardino for his sons, Jose del Carmen Lugo, Jose Maria Lugo, Vicente Lugo, and his nephew, Diego Sepulveda.
El viejo Lugo ……California's Grand Old Man. It was upon one of the most eminent and lovable characters in Southern California's early history that early Los Angeles bestowed this title and Don Antonio Maria Lugo bore it with all the dignity and honor characteristic of a brave soldier and an honorable man. Born about 1762, in the mission of San Antonio de Padua Don Antonio Lugo when but a boy joined the array of the King of Spain, and was rewarded for faithful and brilliant service, with vast land grants in southern California. To his original land grant, the San Antonio Rancho, which was named after him, he gradually added vast properties. It was said of him in the early days that he could ride from San Diego to Sonoma a distance of nearly 700 miles, without once leaving his own land, changing horses daily from his own stock and eating no food but that raised on his property. He was the owner of much of which is now the city of Los Angeles, and the San Antonio Rancho was Located and around the present site of Compton. As late as 1841 he was the grantee of the Santa Ana Del Chino. Such princely possessions alone were enough to distinguish the old Don from his follows. But in addition he enjoyed the reputation of being the best horseman in Southern California, which was saying a lot for a day when every man possessed a horse, and horsemanship was the greatest art. Finally and above all, Don Antonio was noted for his wide and princely hospitality.
Banquets at which a king might have been proud to sit were prepared at the old Adobe mansier located on the San Antonio Rancho. Travelers were welcomed at every hour and the arrival of travelers on the road going to or from Los Angeles was the signal for a Lavish display of hospitality which dazzled the weary pilgrims. The generosity of the old Don became a byword, to be related to the Don, even in the romonest connection, said Major Horace Bell after a visit at the famous rancho, was an assurance of an ample start in land and cattle with which to commence the battle of life. Don Antonio Maria Lugo and his wife, Dona Delores Ruiz de Lugo had five children, each of whom took an active part on both social and business activities of early Los Angeles. They were Jose Maria, Jose Del Carmen, Vincente Jesus and Merced Lugo. Jose del Carmen married Rafabla Castro, member of another pioneer Family. Jesus became the bride of Col. Julian Isaac Williams and the second Lugo daughter Dona Merced became the wife of Stephen Foster, Alcalde of Los Angeles, and Later Designated prefest. Their daughter, Dona Maria Foster later became Mrs. Wallace Woodworth, mother of Charles Woodworth of Los Angeles. Pilar Lugo, daughter of Jose Maria Lugo, married Dolores Valenzuela a Sonoran. Famous as one of the most charming hostesses of her day. Dona Pillar was the mistress of a beautiful adobe home, located in the exclusive Plaza. The Valenzuelas entertained lavishly throughout the fifties and sixties. Their home, which stood on the Northern corner of upper main street, was the scene of lavish balls and entertainment's and the gathering place for the "younger married set" which was most fashionable and exclusive. Don Vincente Lugo, third son of El Viejo, was considered the beau brummel of the fifties and sixties. His gorgeues saddle with its silver trappings, his silver spurs and fine bred horses made him a greatly admired figure wherever he rode. Like his father, he became "Judge of the Plains", an informal sort of officer who aided in the capture of bandits and in keeping order in general in outlying districts. His saddle and spurs, by the way were second in value and beauty only to these of his father. Old Don Antonio's silver studded saddle was the pride of the town, to be pointed out to strangers and discussed in gatherings of the Lersemen, This same saddle has been preserved and is now in the Los Angles County museum. Vincente married a daughter of the Ballesteres, Dona Andrea. Their children, the fortunate grandchildren of El Viejo Lugo, were Felipe, Blas Antonio, Andres, Pedro and Barbara Lugo(de Ramirez). Felipe and Pedro Lugo reside today in the remodeled Lugo Rancho house, which was built by old don Antonio in 1819. Blas Antonio Lugo married, in 1865, married Adelaida Alvarado, a member of the family of governor Alvarado. Three days and Three nights were spent in the Festivities, which followed the ceremony. Guests from all over Southern California had come to share the hospitality of the Lugo's and witness the marriage of a grandson of Don Antonio. Turkeys and young Lambs were roasted before the glowing open fires all day long by the serving Indians, dancing, singing and riding occupied the time for the guests. Following the ceremony in Los Angeles, the bridal couple was driven to the old Lugo rancho, where a house had been built for them near the Family mansion. Here the fiesta in Los Angeles was repeated, and three more days were devoted to celebration. Who is still living in Los Angeles, Dona Adelaida Alvarado de Lugo and Blas Antonio Lugo had six children, all of whom are residents of Los Angeles. They are John, Antonio, and Charles Lugo, Petra Lugo Vignes, Amelia Lugo Bradford and Rosa Lugo Stombs. Jose Ygnacio Lugo, also famous in the annals of early California and owner of the Santa Barbara Rancho, was a brother of Don Antonio Maria Lugo. His daughter, Magdelena, became Mrs. William Wolfskill, and her daughter, Dona Magdelena Wolfskill later became Mrs. Frank Sabichi, of Los Angeles.
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Don Antonio Maria Lugo was born in Spain. Though unable to read or write, he was a man of great energy, decision and strength of mind. He was a commanding figure, fully six feet in height, spare and sinewy. His face was of the purely Spanish type, clean-shaven, naturally stern of expression. The familiar picture of him, shown below, is distinguished by a bandana worn beneath a sombrero - a headdress affected by gentlemen of Leon.
Don Antonio Maria Lugo
Lugo came to California as owner of the San Antonio Rancho - a grant given to him in 1810, while he was serving as a soldier of Spain. He served as Aldalde or Mayor of Los Angeles from 1816 to 1819, juez del campo, or judge of the plains, from 1833-34. This was an important office, and there was no appeal from his decisions. His duties consisted of settling disputes between rancheros relative to the ownership of cattle, etc.
Don Antonio had three sons, and with them he purchased the Rancho San Bernardino from the Mexican Government in 1842. Here he engaged in the life of a cattle rancher until the coming of the Mormons in 1851. Since he bought the Rancho for $800 in hides and tallow, and sold to the Mormons for $77,000, Don Antonio could be classed as one of the first Californians to get rich on real estate.
Shortly after he bought the Rancho, Don Antonio appealed to the governor to assign Father Jose Zalvidea, formerly of San Gabriel Mission, to come and alleviate the suffering of the Indians, struggling in poverty at the abandoned San Bernardino Mission. The contents of his letter, written for him by a scribe, a quoted in full by Beattie in his Heritage of the Valley, and gives interesting insight into Lugo's character. Constantly harassed by hostile Indians, Lugo of course also had in mind that a chapel and resident priest with armed Christianized parishioners, would furnish assistance to his stock raising.
His plea was never answered, and he bought the Mission property, where one of his sons made his home.
After the sale of San Bernardino, the Lugos returned to Los Angeles, where their social life was always centered.
After the Mission system was dismantled by the Mexican government, several prominent Southern Californians attempted to acquire Rancho San Bernardino. In 1837, Antonia Pico and Andres Pico made an application for the land, but it was rejected. Ygnacio Palomares, applied for the right to graze cattle in the eastern San Bernardino Valley. Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado rejected the application. Instead, the governor approved a settlement plan by Don Antonio Maria Lugo. Lugo's proposal was to colonize the San Bernardino area,listing 27 prospective settlers.
In 1839, the Lugo's colonization permit was granted for 18 leagues of land. In the same year, the Lugo Family built an adobe house where the current county courthouse sits today.
The plan for colonization was not successful. In 1841, Don Lugo prepared another petition. This time, it requested a land grant in the name of three of his sons, José del Carmen Lugo, José Maria Lugo, Vicente Lugo, and José del Carmen's friend, Diego Sepulveda.
On June 21, 1842, Rancho San Bernardino was granted to Don Antonio Maria Lugo, his sons and his nephews, who grazed approximately 4000-6000 cattle in the area. The grant included a large part of the San Bernardino valley, 37,700 acres (153 km²) in all. Lugo's adobe would later become Amasa M. Lyman's house. His brother repaired the Estancia and lived there.
In 1843, Michael White (also known in Spanish as Miguel Blanco), a Mexican citizen of English origin, was granted the Muscupiabe Rancho, named after the Serrano village Amuscupiabit, "Place of little pines." Michael White built a house overlooking the Cajon Pass, but Native Americans from the desert stole his grazing stock, and he abandoned the Rancho after nine months.
Away back in the fifties Don Antonio was considered the wealthiest man in California. The old Don came here from Spain when quite a boy as a soldier, and when he left the army he made up his mind to settle in Southern California. He belonged to a wealthy family in Spain, and as he was a good business man he soon acquired large land interests, and at the time of his death, in 1860, it is said he could start out from San Diego on horseback and sleep on his own land every night between that point and Sonoma, a distance of over six hundred miles. The family home was Los Cuerbas, where Compton now stands.
I think this is a tad bit unfair, seeing as people can just copy down the entire %$#@-ing wikipedia article and gather up all the extra credit. Also seeing as the extra credit was available to others earlier than us. And.... that's enough complaining from me.
In the summer of 1769, a group of Spanish explorers set out from the coast of San Diego to explore the uncharted territory between San Diego and the Bay of Monterey. With them was Father Juan Crespi, considered by historians to be one of the great diarists of the new world explorations. His daily entries were remarkably revealing of the country through which the caravan passed. They proceeded in the general direction of the San Gabriel Valley, across the Los Angeles River, which Crespi named "Porciuncula" on August 2, 1769. There would be no history of South Gate without including the story of the Lugo Spanish Land Grant. That grant encompassed a great part of what is now the City of South Gate and is a vital and colorful part of this area's history. Francisco Lugo was a cavalry corporal for the King of Spain and an important figure among the early Spanish settlers of the region. In 1810 the King of Spain granted eleven square leagues to Francisco's son, Don Antonio Maria Lugo, in appreciation for his father's service to the crown. This vast estate was known as the Rancho San Antonio land grant. It extended from the low range of hills which separated it from the San Gabriel Valley to the old Dominguez Ranch at its south, and from the eastern boundary of the pueblo of Los Angeles to the San Gabriel River. A little more than 100 years after the establishment of the Lugo Land Grant, the area at the south gate of the ranch became the City of South Gate. As Don Lugo's family grew, he obtained San Bernardino Rancho and other grants in his children's names. At various times, Don Antonio Maria Lugo was the Alcalde (Mayor) of Los Angeles, Juex del Campo (Judge of the Plains) and a member of the Pueblo Council. In 1846, at the age of 71, he rode 400 miles on horseback from his ranch to Monterey. The future South Gate site and adjacent mesas presented a colorful spectacle when countless heads of cattle and horses were herded from all directions to a common point for the annual great spring rodeo. Lugo would direct the proceedings and settle disputes regarding ownership of contested animals as well as adjudicate agricultural disputes. In his saddle, he was the court and the plains his courtroom. The Land Grant was handed down from generation to generation, dividing among offspring and eventually parceled and sold to people outside the Lugo family. Don Antonio's son Vincente (1820-1889) built his adobe dwelling in the 1850's on five and one half acres. It is known as Lugo Ranch, and is situated on modern day Gage Avenue in the City of Bell Gardens. Before the end of the 1870's, much of the original land grant had been replaced by 40 acre tracts. By 1880, cattle raising had been replaced by agriculture as the most important local industry. During the years between 1910 and 1940, most of the agricultural land was replaced by homes and factories. Today, with the land divided by freeways, it is not easy to imagine it as a vast plain stretching from the mountains to the sea as it was in those early years. The Tweedy family, headed by R.D. Tweedy, has played an important part in South Gate's history. Mr. Tweedy was born in 1812 in Illinois, and came to California by ox-drawn cart in 1852. Mrs. Tweedy rode across the prairies perched on her rocking chair in the ox cart. The family was large, and several generations have lived in this city. The family members bought some 2,000 acres of the land on which much of South Gate was built. The "downtown business district" in South Gate was named after the family and is known as the Tweedy Mile.
In 1771 Antonio Lugo was a 35-year-old corporal in the Spanish army and was given a land grant of more than 29,514 acres, which today is known as the cities of Bell Gardens Maywood, Vernon, Huntington Park, Walnut Park, Cudahy, South Gate, Lynwood and Commerce. The land grant was given as reward for his military service during the establishment of the Franciscan Missions in California while being the attendant of colonization for the area.
While stationed at San Antonio de Padua Mission near Salinas, California, Antonio Lugo’s son Don Antonio Maria Lugo was born in 1783. Later as a young man, Don Antonio, using this large amount of undeveloped territory given to his father, Lugo built one of the largest ranches in the history of the state of California. Don Antonio then built an adobe home on the ranch, which he named Rancho San Antonio. There, Lugo raised cattle and became one of the most respected members of the community, so much that he was given a term as Mayor of Los Angeles. He built several adobe homes within the boundaries of the grant. One of the adobe houses, built in 1795, is the oldest house in Los Angeles County and is still standing at 7000 Gage Ave.
By the time Don Antonio was in his sixties, he had amassed thousands of acres of property. Although he sold some of the land, the majority of it was lost when California became a part of the union in 1850.
One of his nine children, Vicente, married and built a two-story adobe home in 1850, located at 6360 Gage Ave. A daughter of Don Antonio Maria married Stephen C. Foster, Mayor of Los Angeles in 1854 and lived in an adobe house just east of 6820 Foster Bridge Road, now marked by a parking lot. A granddaughter of Antonio Maria Lugo married Wallace Woodworth, an early-day merchant and civic leader in Los Angeles. Their eldest son, Joseph, built a two-story colonial style house at 6820 Foster Bridge Road in 1924.
The land’s original adobe dwelling was built in 1795 and named Casa de Rancho San Antonio by Lugo. When Gage occupied the residence, he added two wings and redwood siding, installed bronze fireplaces, and imported expensive fabric wallpaper from France to serve as background for the Gage coat of arms, which enjoys a place of prominence in every room.
The Bell Garden’s school system began in 1867 when the San Antonio School was built where Bell Gardens Elementary stands today. Area farmers sent their children to the San Antonio School, which was one of the earliest educational institutions in the County of Los Angeles.
Antonio Lugo was born in California while it was still part of Spain. He became a Mexican after independence. He was a soldier and a judge, and from 1816-1819 he was the mayor of a little town called Los Angeles.
In 1810, the same year San Bernardino was named, Antonio Lugo was given a huge ranch around what is now Compton. That is near Los Angeles. He raised thousands of cattle and three sons.
In 1810 the King of Spain granted eleven square leagues to Francisco's son, Don Antonio Maria Lugo, in appreciation for his father's service to the crown.
At various times, Don Antonio Maria Lugo was the Alcalde (Mayor) of Los Angeles, Juex del Campo (Judge of the Plains) and a member of the Pueblo Council. In 1846, at the age of 71, he rode 400 miles on horseback from his ranch to Monterey
on five and one half acres. It is known as Lugo Ranch, and is situated on modern day Gage Avenue in the City of Bell Gardens.
This Rancho had been settled by Don Antonio Maria Lugo, a Spanish aristocrat and former soldier, whose father, Francisco Lugo, came to California in 1771. Some between 1810 and 1813, Don Antonio had obtained permission from the Spanish King to settle on the Rancho; and, later, in about 1838, the King formally granted the land to Don Antonio.
As the years passed, Rancho San Antonio became widely known for its fine horses and large herds of cattle which grazed on the rolling prairie.
In April, 1852, there came to Los Angeles from the north one Irving, leading a band of some thirty men, heavily armed, who professed to be on the way to prospect in the section now called Arizona. They were mostly of the ex-convict class, and their misbehavior was outrageous. After remaining in Los Angeles about a month, Irving proposed to Don Antonio Maria Lugo, grandfather of the Lugos then in prison, that he and his band would, for a consideration of $5,000, deliver the young men from jail and take them safely to Mexico. Lugo replied that he would be guided by the advice of J. Lancaster Brent (a prominent attorney of Los Angeles from 1851 to 1861). who had been retained to defend the young men. Brent naturally condemned the undertaking. Before the day of the trial the witnesses for the people were sent to Sonora, where were taken their affidavits, in which they swore to facts establishing for the accused an alibi. Upon these affidavits, application was made to the district judge for the release of the prisoners on bail. Irving swore that if the judge should admit the Lugos to bail, Irving and his band would take them to the courthouse and hang them. The day before the hearing of the case, a company of United States dragoon encamped on the bank of the Los Angeles River, and the sheriff applied to the commanding officer of this detachment for assistance in protecting the court. The officer promised his support. When court opened the following day the prisoners were present with their bondsmen, and along one side of the room were ranged Irving's men, all heavily armed. Presently marched in a party of dragoons, with carbines ready for action, who placed themselves facing the Irving party. The bonds were approved and signed, and the judge ordered that the prisoners be released on bail. The dragoons escorted them out of the town in safety. Irving vowed vengeance on the Lugos and the lawyer who had, as he considered, prevented him from getting $5,000. About the last of May, he left Los Angeles on the road to Sonora, in company with another party of strangers, recently arrived, heavily armed, but apparently honest prospectors, bound for Arizona. Directly after these adventurers left the town, it transpired that Irving's plan was to go to Mexico, capture a silver train on the road from Chihuahua to Mazatlan and with the plunder thereof make his way across the country to Texas. He also purposed to go to the Rancho San Bernardino, on his way to Mexico, drive off Lugo's saddle horses, and seize the young Lugos, to hold them to ransom in the sum of $10,000. His men proved refractory on this plan, only sixteen of them agreeing to accompany him, while the rest went on with the other party. As soon as this project became known in Los Angeles, a messenger was dispatched to warn the Lugos. On May 30, Irving, with eleven others started from the Laguna Rancho, across the plains towards San Bernardino, expecting to reach the rancho by nightfall, and thence proceed to Warner's by way of San Jacinto. He was not acquainted with the country, so that day only succeeded in reaching the Jurupa, eight miles from the San Bernardino. Before the start, the next morning, Rubidoux, of the Jurupa, had sent a messenger to warn the Lugos. Thus Irving's party, when they arrived at the house, found that the family and the servants had departed, while the horses were on the way toward the rodeo ground, where there were some thirty vaqueros employed in branding cattle. Some time before this, a company of rangers, commanded by Lieutenant J. A. Bean, had been raised on the warrant of an act of the Legislature, for the defense of the frontier against Indian depredations. They made their headquarters on Logo's Rancho at San Bernardino, but it happened that they had gone on a scout that day to the Mohave. Jose del Carmen Lugo was in charge of the rancho. He sent one vaquero riding post haste to inform Bean of Irving's arrival, and another to Juan Antonio, chief of the Cahuilla Indians, bidding him raise all the Indians in the valley, and follow Irving's party until overtaken by the rangers. Irving went from the first ranch house to old San Bernardino, where his party broke open and looted the dwelling. When they saw the Indians approaching, they mounted, and proceeded toward San Jacinto, but were soon overtaken by the Indians, under one of Lugo's vaqueros, named Uribes.
well i just finished a report on him and i happen to know a shit load, such as the fact that when he was 12 he received his first animal which was a bird he named Reptar. i also happened to discover that he spent 3 weeks at a post union convention during his time after office. there he learned his first and major skill of displaying the masses for a ultimate effect. Don Lugo was the eventful transparent mind of the late times due to unsaturated fats which contributed to his lonely unexpected failure of the kneecaps. from there. he refused medical support because of lack of the necessities for that one could afford without complete satisfaction to the lower bowl of his chest. to an extend of no return did don apply his wisdom knowledge led to the great historical event know as The Great PanCake Massacre of 1873 everyone died except 299 out of 300. After he retired from the circus in 91 he supported the homeless through mass dispersal of KFC. later being sucked through a vortex of never ending-ness of nothing the pure aspect of the raw material of which life can first expand to expose the true identity of density to a point by which mere absence of nothing can be harvest into meaning and logical reasons to be put in good use to the human mind point by point.
After the Mission system was dismantled by the Mexican government, several prominent Southern Californians attempted to acquire Rancho San Bernardino. In 1837, Antonia Pico and Andres Pico made an application for the land, but it was rejected. Ygnacio Palomares, applied for the right to graze cattle in the eastern San Bernardino Valley. Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado rejected the application. Instead, the governor approved a settlement plan by Don Antonio Maria Lugo. Lugo's proposal was to colonize the San Bernardino area,listing 27 prospective settlers. In 1839, the Lugo's colonization permit was granted for 18 leagues of land. In the same year, the Lugo Family built an adobe house where the current county courthouse sits today. The plan for colonization was not successful. In 1841, Don Lugo prepared another petition. This time, it requested a land grant in the name of three of his sons, José del Carmen Lugo, José Maria Lugo, Vicente Lugo, and José del Carmen's friend, Diego Sepulveda. On June 21, 1842, Rancho San Bernardino was granted to Don Antonio Maria Lugo, his sons and his nephews, who grazed approximately 4000-6000 cattle in the area. The grant included a large part of the San Bernardino valley, 37,700 acres (153 km²) in all. Lugo's adobe would later become Amasa M. Lyman's house. His brother repaired the Estancia and lived there. In 1843, Michael White (also known in Spanish as Miguel Blanco), a Mexican citizen of English origin, was granted the Muscupiabe Rancho, named after the Serrano village Amuscupiabit, "Place of little pines." Michael White built a house overlooking the Cajon Pass, but Native Americans from the desert stole his grazing stock, and he abandoned the Rancho after nine months.
By, Jarvous Taylor Period 6 In 1810, Don Antonio Lugo, received a grant to a tract of land of some 29,514 acres. He named it Rancho San Antonio, after his birthplace, El Mission San Antonio de Padua, in 1775.
Don Antonio Maria Lugo was born in Spain. Though unable to read or write, he was a man of great energy, decision and strength of mind. He was a commanding figure, fully six feet in height, spare and sinewy. His face was of the purely Spanish type, clean-shaven, naturally stern of expression. The familiar picture of him, shown below, is distinguished by a bandana worn beneath a sombrero - a headdress affected by gentlemen of Leon.
Lugo came to California as owner of the San Antonio Rancho - a grant given to him in 1810, while he was serving as a soldier of Spain. He served as Aldalde or Mayor of Los Angeles from 1816 to 1819, juez del campo, or judge of the plains, from 1833-34. This was an important office, and there was no appeal from his decisions. His duties consisted of settling disputes between rancheros relative to the ownership of cattle, etc.
Don Antonio had three sons, and with them he purchased the Rancho San Bernardino from the Mexican Government in 1842. Here he engaged in the life of a cattle rancher until the coming of the Mormons in 1851. Since he bought the Rancho for $800 in hides and tallow, and sold to the Mormons for $77,000, Don Antonio could be classed as one of the first Californians to get rich on real estate.
Shortly after he bought the Rancho, Don Antonio appealed to the governor to assign Father Jose Zalvidea, formerly of San Gabriel Mission, to come and alleviate the suffering of the Indians, struggling in poverty at the abandoned San Bernardino Mission. The contents of his letter, written for him by a scribe, a quoted in full by Beattie in his Heritage of the Valley, and gives interesting insight into Lugo's character. Constantly harassed by hostile Indians, Lugo of course also had in mind that a chapel and resident priest with armed Christianized parishioners, would furnish assistance to his stock raising.
His plea was never answered, and he bought the Mission property, where one of his sons made his home.
After the sale of San Bernardino, the Lugos returned to Los Angeles, where their social life was always centered.
It was in 1810 that the King of Spain rewarded his former cavalry corporal, Don Antonio Maria Lugo, with eleven square league of California. In 1813, Don Antonio Maria Lugo settled on an area that extended from the low range of hills which separated it from the San Gabriel Valley to the Old Dominguez Rancho at its south, and from the eastern boundary of the Pueblo to the San Gabriel River. This was a huge land holding approximately 29,513 acres. The huge ranchos of San Antonio, Chino, San Bernardino and Cucamonga became the properties of Antonio Lugo.
In 1855, Rancho San Antonio was partitioned and sold. San Antonio kept approximately one-seventh of the ranch, 4,239 acres. The old grandee lived on seven acres of his land, the Lugo Ranch, three miles east of Bell. Don Antonio Maria Lugo rode tall in the saddle until he was past ninety years old. He was a familiar sight. Don Antonio died in 1860. The total 4,239 acres were deeded to Vincent Lugo.
In 1862, the Los Angles and the San Gabriel Rivers overflowed. To compound the problem, the years of 1863-64 were years of drought. Like so many large Spanish land owners, Vincent Lugo was forced to relinquish his title to the land.
The oldest remaining house in Los Angeles is the Avila Adobe located on Olvera Street (built 1818). It is not, however, the oldest remaining house in Los Angeles County. Shane Kimbler, a Bell Gardens history enthusiast, wrote to point out that early colonist Francisco Salvador Lugo and son Antonio María Lugo began construction in 1795 on what is now known as Casa de Rancho San Antonio or the Henry Gage Mansion. The house is located at 7000 East Gage Avenue in Bell Gardens. It was built to qualify the younger Lugo, a former Spanish colonial soldier, for a land grant from the Spanish crown. In 1810, Antonio María Lugo completed the house and received the grant, naming his new grant Rancho San Antonio. The ranch eventually grew to encompass 29,513 acres, including what are now the cities of Bell Gardens, Commerce, and parts of Bell, Cudahy, Lynwood, Montebello, South Gate, Vernon and East Los Angeles. When California became part of the U.S. in 1850, Lugo, as did all recipients of Spanish/Mexican land grants, began losing portions of his land to the growing population of Yankee newcomers. The ranch adobe, however, continued to be owned and used by the Lugo family.
Don Antonio María Lugo died at the age of 85 in 1860. According to Dr. Roy Whitehead in his book Lugo, "Don Antonio Maria Lugo…rode around Los Angeles and his Rancho San Antonio in great splendor. He never adopted American dress, culture or language and still spoke only Spanish. He rode magnificent horses, sitting in his $1,500 silver trimmed saddle erect and stately, with his sword strapped to the saddle beneath his left leg…People knew him far and wide, and even the Indians sometimes named their children after him, as he was one Spanish Don that they admired."
By 1865, most of the Lugo ranch, divided among five sons and three daughters, had been sold off for as little as a dollar per acre. The original adobe ranch home, however, remained in the family. In 1880, attorney Henry T. Gage, a transplant from Michigan, married one of Lugo’s great granddaughters, Francis "Fanny" Rains. The original adobe ranch home was gifted to Gage as a wedding dowry and it became known as the Gage Mansion. In 1898, Gage was elected to become Governor of California. He served in that office from 1899 to 1903. In 1910, he was appointed by President William Howard Taft to serve as U.S. Minister to Portugal. He resigned after only one year due to his wife’s health problems. Gage lived in the abode ranch house until his death in 1924.
A century later, the Gage Mansion was all that remained of the once great Rancho San Antonio. In 1983, the Casa Mobile Home Park, a cooperative of mobile home owners renting lots on the property, purchased the land and the house from their ailing landlord. Although they were aware of the historical significance of the old house, they had no means of maintaining it. In 1987, then Bell Gardens City Councilwoman Letha Wiles began working to get the house listed on the state historical registry, making it eligible for maintenance grants. It is now listed as California Historical Site Number 984.
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ReplyDeleteIn 1771 Antonio Lugo was a 35-year-old corporal in the Spanish army and was given a land grant of more than 29,514 acres (119.44 km2), which today is known as the cities of Bell Gardens, Bell, Maywood, Vernon, Huntington Park, Walnut Park, Cudahy, South Gate, Lynwood and Commerce. The land grant was given as reward for his military service during the establishment of the Franciscan Missions in California while being the attendant of colonization for the area.
ReplyDeleteWhile stationed at San Antonio de Padua Mission near Salinas, California, Antonio Lugo’s son Don Antonio Maria Lugo was born in 1783. Later as a young man, Don Antonio, using this large amount of undeveloped territory given to his father, Lugo built one of the largest ranches in the history of the state of California. Don Antonio then built an adobe home on the ranch, which he named Rancho San Antonio. There, Lugo raised cattle and became one of the most respected members of the community, so much that he was given a term as Mayor of Los Angeles. He built several adobe homes within the boundaries of the grant. One of the adobe houses, built in 1795, is the oldest house in Los Angeles County and is still standing at 7000 Gage Ave.
By the time Don Antonio was in his sixties, he had amassed thousands of acres of property. Although he sold some of the land, the majority of it was lost when California became a part of the union in 1850.
One of his nine children, Vicente, married and built a two-story adobe home in 1850, located at 6360 Gage Ave. A daughter of Don Antonio Maria married Stephen C. Foster, Mayor of Los Angeles in 1854 and lived in an adobe house just east of 6820 Foster Bridge Road, now marked by a parking lot. A granddaughter of Antonio Maria Lugo married Wallace Woodworth, an early-day merchant and civic leader in Los Angeles. Their eldest son, Joseph, built a two-story colonial style house at 6820 Foster Bridge Road in 1924.
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he died when he was 85 and constructed the Rancho San Antonio
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vijay dugal p. 3
In 1810, Don Antonio Lugo, after serving 17 years in the army, received a grant to a tract of land of some 29514 acres.
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Don Lugo High School was founded in 1976, and during that year the school only accepted freshmen. \
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Don Antonio Lugo highschool had its first full class of students in 1980
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"At various times, Don Antonio Maria Lugo was the Alcalde (Mayor) of Los Angeles" -From http://www.sogate.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Detail/CID/67/NavID/34/
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On June 21, 1842, Rancho San Bernardino was granted to Don Antonio Maria Lugo, his sons and his nephews, who grazed approximately 4000-6000 cattle in the area
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On June 21, 1842, Rancho San Bernardino was granted to Don Antonio Maria Lugo, his sons and his nephews, who grazed approximately 4000-6000 cattle in the area
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Born about 1762, in the mission of San Antonio de Padua Don Antonio Lugo when but a boy joined the array of the King of Spain, and was rewarded for faithful and brilliant service, with vast land grants in southern California.
ReplyDeleteTo his original land grant, the San Antonio Rancho, which was named after him, he gradually added vast properties.
It was said of him in the early days that he could ride from San Diego to Sonoma a distance of nearly 700 miles, without once leaving his own land, changing horses daily from his own stock and eating no food but that raised on his property.
He was the owner of much of which is now the city of Los Angeles, and the San Antonio Rancho was Located and around the present site of Compton.
As late as 1841 he was the grantee of the Santa Ana Del Chino.
Such princely possessions alone were enough to distinguish the old Don from his follows.
But in addition he enjoyed the reputation of being the best horseman in Southern California, which was saying a lot for a day when every man possessed a horse, and horsemanship was the greatest art.
Finally and above all, Don Antonio was noted for his wide and princely hospitality.
Don Antonio Maria Lugo and his wife, Dona Delores Ruiz de Lugo had five children, each of whom took an active part on both social and business activities of early Los Angeles. They were Jose Maria, Jose Del Carmen, Vincente Jesus and Merced Lugohttp://members.tripod.com/~HMART/Family_Lugo.html
"In the Nineteenth Century, until 1860, the area which now is the City Of Bell is Los Angeles County, was part of the 30,000 - acre Rancho San Antonio (Lugo grant)Rancho San Antonio. This Rancho had been settled by Don Antonio Maria Lugo, a Spanish aristocrat and former soldier." -From http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/272702
ReplyDelete"between 1810 and 1813, Don Antonio had obtained permission from the Spanish King to settle on the Rancho; and, later, in about 1838, the King formally granted the land to Don Antonio"
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Sean T. Robertson P.3 Mr.Thomas
The earliest recorded landowner in the Fontana area was Don Antonio Maria Lugo, who received a land grant in 1813.http://www.fontana.org/main/history.htm
ReplyDeleteBy the time Don Antonio was in his sixties, he had amassed thousands of acres of property. Although he sold some of the land, the majority of it was lost when California became a part of the union in 1850. Later as a young man, Don Antonio, using this large amount of undeveloped territory given to his father, Lugo built one of the largest ranches in the history of the state of California. Don Antonio then built an adobe home on the ranch, which he named Rancho San Antonio. There, Lugo raised cattle and became one of the most respected members of the community, so much that he was given a term as Mayor of Los Angeles. He built several adobe homes within the boundaries of the grant. One of the adobe houses, built in 1795, is the oldest house in Los Angeles County and is still standing at 7000 Gage Ave.Today, only a 2.4-square-mile (6.2 km2) city, Bell Gardens maintains only a small portion of the original Lugo land grant
Their effort ensures that Don Antonio Maria Lugo’s name and his historic home will be preserved for future generations of Bell Gardens residents and Californians.
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1841 - In 1841 Don Antonio Maria Lugo applied to the Mexican government for a grant of the Rancho de San Bernardino for his sons, Jose del Carmen Lugo, Jose Maria Lugo, Vicente Lugo, and his nephew, Diego Sepulveda.
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"The Lugo's"
ReplyDeleteEl viejo Lugo ……California's Grand Old Man. It was upon one of the most eminent and lovable characters in Southern California's early history that early Los Angeles bestowed this title and Don Antonio Maria Lugo bore it with all the dignity and honor characteristic of a brave soldier and an honorable man. Born about 1762, in the mission of San Antonio de Padua Don Antonio Lugo when but a boy joined the array of the King of Spain, and was rewarded for faithful and brilliant service, with vast land grants in southern California. To his original land grant, the San Antonio Rancho, which was named after him, he gradually added vast properties. It was said of him in the early days that he could ride from San Diego to Sonoma a distance of nearly 700 miles, without once leaving his own land, changing horses daily from his own stock and eating no food but that raised on his property. He was the owner of much of which is now the city of Los Angeles, and the San Antonio Rancho was Located and around the present site of Compton. As late as 1841 he was the grantee of the Santa Ana Del Chino. Such princely possessions alone were enough to distinguish the old Don from his follows. But in addition he enjoyed the reputation of being the best horseman in Southern California, which was saying a lot for a day when every man possessed a horse, and horsemanship was the greatest art. Finally and above all, Don Antonio was noted for his wide and princely hospitality.
Banquets at which a king might have been proud to sit were prepared at the old Adobe mansier located on the San Antonio Rancho. Travelers were welcomed at every hour and the arrival of travelers on the road going to or from Los Angeles was the signal for a Lavish display of hospitality which dazzled the weary pilgrims. The generosity of the old Don became a byword, to be related to the Don, even in the romonest connection, said Major Horace Bell after a visit at the famous rancho, was an assurance of an ample start in land and cattle with which to commence the battle of life. Don Antonio Maria Lugo and his wife, Dona Delores Ruiz de Lugo had five children, each of whom took an active part on both social and business activities of early Los Angeles. They were Jose Maria, Jose Del Carmen, Vincente Jesus and Merced Lugo. Jose del Carmen married Rafabla Castro, member of another pioneer Family. Jesus became the bride of Col. Julian Isaac Williams and the second Lugo daughter Dona Merced became the wife of Stephen Foster, Alcalde of Los Angeles, and Later Designated prefest. Their daughter, Dona Maria Foster later became Mrs. Wallace Woodworth, mother of Charles Woodworth of Los Angeles. Pilar Lugo, daughter of Jose Maria Lugo, married Dolores Valenzuela a Sonoran. Famous as one of the most charming hostesses of her day. Dona Pillar was the mistress of a beautiful adobe home, located in the exclusive Plaza. The Valenzuelas entertained lavishly throughout the fifties and sixties. Their home, which stood on the Northern corner of upper main street, was the scene of lavish balls and entertainment's and the gathering place for the "younger married set" which was most fashionable and exclusive. Don Vincente Lugo, third son of El Viejo, was considered the beau brummel of the fifties and sixties. His gorgeues saddle with its silver trappings, his silver spurs and fine bred horses made him a greatly admired figure wherever he rode. Like his father, he became "Judge of the Plains", an informal sort of officer who aided in the capture of bandits and in keeping order in general in outlying districts. His saddle and spurs, by the way were second in value and beauty only to these of his father. Old Don Antonio's silver studded saddle was the pride of the town, to be pointed out to strangers and discussed in gatherings of the Lersemen, This same saddle has been preserved and is now in the Los Angles County museum. Vincente married a daughter of the Ballesteres, Dona Andrea. Their children, the fortunate grandchildren of El Viejo Lugo, were Felipe, Blas Antonio, Andres, Pedro and Barbara Lugo(de Ramirez). Felipe and Pedro Lugo reside today in the remodeled Lugo Rancho house, which was built by old don Antonio in 1819. Blas Antonio Lugo married, in 1865, married Adelaida Alvarado, a member of the family of governor Alvarado. Three days and Three nights were spent in the Festivities, which followed the ceremony. Guests from all over Southern California had come to share the hospitality of the Lugo's and witness the marriage of a grandson of Don Antonio. Turkeys and young Lambs were roasted before the glowing open fires all day long by the serving Indians, dancing, singing and riding occupied the time for the guests. Following the ceremony in Los Angeles, the bridal couple was driven to the old Lugo rancho, where a house had been built for them near the Family mansion. Here the fiesta in Los Angeles was repeated, and three more days were devoted to celebration. Who is still living in Los Angeles, Dona Adelaida Alvarado de Lugo and Blas Antonio Lugo had six children, all of whom are residents of Los Angeles. They are John, Antonio, and Charles Lugo, Petra Lugo Vignes, Amelia Lugo Bradford and Rosa Lugo Stombs. Jose Ygnacio Lugo, also famous in the annals of early California and owner of the Santa Barbara Rancho, was a brother of Don Antonio Maria Lugo. His daughter, Magdelena, became Mrs. William Wolfskill, and her daughter, Dona Magdelena Wolfskill later became Mrs. Frank Sabichi, of Los Angeles.
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Don Antonio Maria Lugo was born in Spain. Though unable to read or write, he was a man of great energy, decision and strength of mind. He was a commanding figure, fully six feet in height, spare and sinewy. His face was of the purely Spanish type, clean-shaven, naturally stern of expression. The familiar picture of him, shown below, is distinguished by a bandana worn beneath a sombrero - a headdress affected by gentlemen of Leon.
Don Antonio Maria Lugo
Lugo came to California as owner of the San Antonio Rancho - a grant given to him in 1810, while he was serving as a soldier of Spain. He served as Aldalde or Mayor of Los Angeles from 1816 to 1819, juez del campo, or judge of the plains, from 1833-34. This was an important office, and there was no appeal from his decisions. His duties consisted of settling disputes between rancheros relative to the ownership of cattle, etc.
Don Antonio had three sons, and with them he purchased the Rancho San Bernardino from the Mexican Government in 1842. Here he engaged in the life of a cattle rancher until the coming of the Mormons in 1851. Since he bought the Rancho for $800 in hides and tallow, and sold to the Mormons for $77,000, Don Antonio could be classed as one of the first Californians to get rich on real estate.
Shortly after he bought the Rancho, Don Antonio appealed to the governor to assign Father Jose Zalvidea, formerly of San Gabriel Mission, to come and alleviate the suffering of the Indians, struggling in poverty at the abandoned San Bernardino Mission. The contents of his letter, written for him by a scribe, a quoted in full by Beattie in his Heritage of the Valley, and gives interesting insight into Lugo's character. Constantly harassed by hostile Indians, Lugo of course also had in mind that a chapel and resident priest with armed Christianized parishioners, would furnish assistance to his stock raising.
His plea was never answered, and he bought the Mission property, where one of his sons made his home.
After the sale of San Bernardino, the Lugos returned to Los Angeles, where their social life was always centered.
http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/about/history/streets_n_places/lugo_avenue.asp
carissa manikan period 3
After the Mission system was dismantled by the Mexican government, several prominent Southern Californians attempted to acquire Rancho San Bernardino. In 1837, Antonia Pico and Andres Pico made an application for the land, but it was rejected. Ygnacio Palomares, applied for the right to graze cattle in the eastern San Bernardino Valley. Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado rejected the application. Instead, the governor approved a settlement plan by Don Antonio Maria Lugo. Lugo's proposal was to colonize the San Bernardino area,listing 27 prospective settlers.
ReplyDeleteIn 1839, the Lugo's colonization permit was granted for 18 leagues of land. In the same year, the Lugo Family built an adobe house where the current county courthouse sits today.
The plan for colonization was not successful. In 1841, Don Lugo prepared another petition. This time, it requested a land grant in the name of three of his sons, José del Carmen Lugo, José Maria Lugo, Vicente Lugo, and José del Carmen's friend, Diego Sepulveda.
On June 21, 1842, Rancho San Bernardino was granted to Don Antonio Maria Lugo, his sons and his nephews, who grazed approximately 4000-6000 cattle in the area. The grant included a large part of the San Bernardino valley, 37,700 acres (153 km²) in all. Lugo's adobe would later become Amasa M. Lyman's house. His brother repaired the Estancia and lived there.
In 1843, Michael White (also known in Spanish as Miguel Blanco), a Mexican citizen of English origin, was granted the Muscupiabe Rancho, named after the Serrano village Amuscupiabit, "Place of little pines." Michael White built a house overlooking the Cajon Pass, but Native Americans from the desert stole his grazing stock, and he abandoned the Rancho after nine months.
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ReplyDeleteAway back in the fifties Don Antonio was considered the wealthiest man in California. The old Don came here from Spain when quite a boy as a soldier, and when he left the army he made up his mind to settle in Southern California. He belonged to a wealthy family in Spain, and as he was a good business man he soon acquired large land interests, and at the time of his death, in 1860, it is said he could start out from San Diego on horseback and sleep on his own land every night between that point and Sonoma, a distance of over six hundred miles.
ReplyDeleteThe family home was Los Cuerbas, where Compton now stands.
I think this is a tad bit unfair, seeing as people can just copy down the entire %$#@-ing wikipedia article and gather up all the extra credit. Also seeing as the extra credit was available to others earlier than us. And.... that's enough complaining from me.
-Kingston Hon, Per. 1
In the summer of 1769, a group of Spanish explorers set out from the coast of San Diego to explore the uncharted territory between San Diego and the Bay of Monterey. With them was Father Juan Crespi, considered by historians to be one of the great diarists of the new world explorations. His daily entries were remarkably revealing of the country through which the caravan passed. They proceeded in the general direction of the San Gabriel Valley, across the Los Angeles River, which Crespi named "Porciuncula" on August 2, 1769.
ReplyDeleteThere would be no history of South Gate without including the story of the Lugo Spanish Land Grant. That grant encompassed a great part of what is now the City of South Gate and is a vital and colorful part of this area's history.
Francisco Lugo was a cavalry corporal for the King of Spain and an important figure among the early Spanish settlers of the region. In 1810 the King of Spain granted eleven square leagues to Francisco's son, Don Antonio Maria Lugo, in appreciation for his father's service to the crown. This vast estate was known as the Rancho San Antonio land grant. It extended from the low range of hills which separated it from the San Gabriel Valley to the old Dominguez Ranch at its south, and from the eastern boundary of the pueblo of Los Angeles to the San Gabriel River.
A little more than 100 years after the establishment of the Lugo Land Grant, the area at the south gate of the ranch became the City of South Gate. As Don Lugo's family grew, he obtained San Bernardino Rancho and other grants in his children's names.
At various times, Don Antonio Maria Lugo was the Alcalde (Mayor) of Los Angeles, Juex del Campo (Judge of the Plains) and a member of the Pueblo Council. In 1846, at the age of 71, he rode 400 miles on horseback from his ranch to Monterey.
The future South Gate site and adjacent mesas presented a colorful spectacle when countless heads of cattle and horses were herded from all directions to a common point for the annual great spring rodeo. Lugo would direct the proceedings and settle disputes regarding ownership of contested animals as well as adjudicate agricultural disputes. In his saddle, he was the court and the plains his courtroom.
The Land Grant was handed down from generation to generation, dividing among offspring and eventually parceled and sold to people outside the Lugo family.
Don Antonio's son Vincente (1820-1889) built his adobe dwelling in the 1850's on five and one half acres. It is known as Lugo Ranch, and is situated on modern day Gage Avenue in the City of Bell Gardens.
Before the end of the 1870's, much of the original land grant had been replaced by 40 acre tracts. By 1880, cattle raising had been replaced by agriculture as the most important local industry. During the years between 1910 and 1940, most of the agricultural land was replaced by homes and factories. Today, with the land divided by freeways, it is not easy to imagine it as a vast plain stretching from the mountains to the sea as it was in those early years.
The Tweedy family, headed by R.D. Tweedy, has played an important part in South Gate's history. Mr. Tweedy was born in 1812 in Illinois, and came to California by ox-drawn cart in 1852. Mrs. Tweedy rode across the prairies perched on her rocking chair in the ox cart. The family was large, and several generations have lived in this city. The family members bought some 2,000 acres of the land on which much of South Gate was built. The "downtown business district" in South Gate was named after the family and is known as the Tweedy Mile.
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In 1771 Antonio Lugo was a 35-year-old corporal in the Spanish army and was given a land grant of more than 29,514 acres, which today is known as the cities of Bell Gardens Maywood, Vernon, Huntington Park, Walnut Park, Cudahy, South Gate, Lynwood and Commerce. The land grant was given as reward for his military service during the establishment of the Franciscan Missions in California while being the attendant of colonization for the area.
While stationed at San Antonio de Padua Mission near Salinas, California, Antonio Lugo’s son Don Antonio Maria Lugo was born in 1783. Later as a young man, Don Antonio, using this large amount of undeveloped territory given to his father, Lugo built one of the largest ranches in the history of the state of California. Don Antonio then built an adobe home on the ranch, which he named Rancho San Antonio. There, Lugo raised cattle and became one of the most respected members of the community, so much that he was given a term as Mayor of Los Angeles. He built several adobe homes within the boundaries of the grant. One of the adobe houses, built in 1795, is the oldest house in Los Angeles County and is still standing at 7000 Gage Ave.
By the time Don Antonio was in his sixties, he had amassed thousands of acres of property. Although he sold some of the land, the majority of it was lost when California became a part of the union in 1850.
One of his nine children, Vicente, married and built a two-story adobe home in 1850, located at 6360 Gage Ave. A daughter of Don Antonio Maria married Stephen C. Foster, Mayor of Los Angeles in 1854 and lived in an adobe house just east of 6820 Foster Bridge Road, now marked by a parking lot. A granddaughter of Antonio Maria Lugo married Wallace Woodworth, an early-day merchant and civic leader in Los Angeles. Their eldest son, Joseph, built a two-story colonial style house at 6820 Foster Bridge Road in 1924.
The land’s original adobe dwelling was built in 1795 and named Casa de Rancho San Antonio by Lugo. When Gage occupied the residence, he added two wings and redwood siding, installed bronze fireplaces, and imported expensive fabric wallpaper from France to serve as background for the Gage coat of arms, which enjoys a place of prominence in every room.
The Bell Garden’s school system began in 1867 when the San Antonio School was built where Bell Gardens Elementary stands today. Area farmers sent their children to the San Antonio School, which was one of the earliest educational institutions in the County of Los Angeles.
http://mybellgardens.com/Early+start+of+Bell+Gardens
Steven Machado, Period 2
Antonio Lugo was born in California while it was still part of Spain. He became a Mexican after independence. He was a soldier and a judge, and from 1816-1819 he was the mayor of a little town called Los Angeles.
ReplyDeleteIn 1810, the same year San Bernardino was named, Antonio Lugo was given a huge ranch around what is now Compton. That is near Los Angeles. He raised thousands of cattle and three sons.
http://www.rims.k12.ca.us/foot_prints/Files/lugo_era_history.htm
Kevin Fructuoso P.2
In 1810 the King of Spain granted eleven square leagues to Francisco's son, Don Antonio Maria Lugo, in appreciation for his father's service to the crown.
ReplyDeleteAt various times, Don Antonio Maria Lugo was the Alcalde (Mayor) of Los Angeles, Juex del Campo (Judge of the Plains) and a member of the Pueblo Council. In 1846, at the age of 71, he rode 400 miles on horseback from his ranch to Monterey
on five and one half acres. It is known as Lugo Ranch, and is situated on modern day Gage Avenue in the City of Bell Gardens.
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This Rancho had been settled by Don Antonio Maria Lugo, a Spanish aristocrat and former soldier, whose father, Francisco Lugo, came to California in 1771. Some between 1810 and 1813, Don Antonio had obtained permission from the Spanish King to settle on the Rancho; and, later, in about 1838, the King formally granted the land to Don Antonio.
As the years passed, Rancho San Antonio became widely known for its fine horses and large herds of cattle which grazed on the rolling prairie.
http://experiencefestival.com/a/Bell_California_-_History/id/615969
Lauren Aldredge
Period 02
In April, 1852, there came to Los Angeles from the north one Irving, leading a band of some thirty men, heavily armed, who professed to be on the way to prospect in the section now called Arizona. They were mostly of the ex-convict class, and their misbehavior was outrageous. After remaining in Los Angeles about a month, Irving proposed to Don Antonio Maria Lugo, grandfather of the Lugos then in prison, that he and his band would, for a consideration of $5,000, deliver the young men from jail and take them safely to Mexico. Lugo replied that he would be guided by the advice of J. Lancaster Brent (a prominent attorney of Los Angeles from 1851 to 1861). who had been retained to defend the young men. Brent naturally condemned the undertaking. Before the day of the trial the witnesses for the people were sent to Sonora, where were taken their affidavits, in which they swore to facts establishing for the accused an alibi. Upon these affidavits, application was made to the district judge for the release of the prisoners on bail. Irving swore that if the judge should admit the Lugos to bail, Irving and his band would take them to the courthouse and hang them. The day before the hearing of the case, a company of United States dragoon encamped on the bank of the Los Angeles River, and the sheriff applied to the commanding officer of this detachment for assistance in protecting the court. The officer promised his support. When court opened the following day the prisoners were present with their bondsmen, and along one side of the room were ranged Irving's men, all heavily armed. Presently marched in a party of dragoons, with carbines ready for action, who placed themselves facing the Irving party. The bonds were approved and signed, and the judge ordered that the prisoners be released on bail. The dragoons escorted them out of the town in safety. Irving vowed vengeance on the Lugos and the lawyer who had, as he considered, prevented him from getting $5,000. About the last of May, he left Los Angeles on the road to Sonora, in company with another party of strangers, recently arrived, heavily armed, but apparently honest prospectors, bound for Arizona. Directly after these adventurers left the town, it transpired that Irving's plan was to go to Mexico, capture a silver train on the road from Chihuahua to Mazatlan and with the plunder thereof make his way across the country to Texas. He also purposed to go to the Rancho San Bernardino, on his way to Mexico, drive off Lugo's saddle horses, and seize the young Lugos, to hold them to ransom in the sum of $10,000. His men proved refractory on this plan, only sixteen of them agreeing to accompany him, while the rest went on with the other party. As soon as this project became known in Los Angeles, a messenger was dispatched to warn the Lugos. On May 30, Irving, with eleven others started from the Laguna Rancho, across the plains towards San Bernardino, expecting to reach the rancho by nightfall, and thence proceed to Warner's by way of San Jacinto. He was not acquainted with the country, so that day only succeeded in reaching the Jurupa, eight miles from the San Bernardino. Before the start, the next morning, Rubidoux, of the Jurupa, had sent a messenger to warn the Lugos. Thus Irving's party, when they arrived at the house, found that the family and the servants had departed, while the horses were on the way toward the rodeo ground, where there were some thirty vaqueros employed in branding cattle. Some time before this, a company of rangers, commanded by Lieutenant J. A. Bean, had been raised on the warrant of an act of the Legislature, for the defense of the frontier against Indian depredations. They made their headquarters on Logo's Rancho at San Bernardino, but it happened that they had gone on a scout that day to the Mohave. Jose del Carmen Lugo was in charge of the rancho. He sent one vaquero riding post haste to inform Bean of Irving's arrival, and another to Juan Antonio, chief of the Cahuilla Indians, bidding him raise all the Indians in the valley, and follow Irving's party until overtaken by the rangers. Irving went from the first ranch house to old San Bernardino, where his party broke open and looted the dwelling. When they saw the Indians approaching, they mounted, and proceeded toward San Jacinto, but were soon overtaken by the Indians, under one of Lugo's vaqueros, named Uribes.
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well i just finished a report on him and i happen to know a shit load, such as the fact that when he was 12 he received his first animal which was a bird he named Reptar. i also happened to discover that he spent 3 weeks at a post union convention during his time after office. there he learned his first and major skill of displaying the masses for a ultimate effect.
ReplyDeleteDon Lugo was the eventful transparent mind of the late times due to unsaturated fats which contributed to his lonely unexpected failure of the kneecaps. from there. he refused medical support because of lack of the necessities for that one could afford without complete satisfaction to the lower bowl of his chest.
to an extend of no return did don apply his wisdom knowledge led to the great historical event know as The Great PanCake Massacre of 1873
everyone died except 299 out of 300.
After he retired from the circus in 91 he supported the homeless through mass dispersal of KFC. later being sucked through a vortex of never ending-ness of nothing the pure aspect of the raw material of which life can first expand to expose the true identity of density to a point by which mere absence of nothing can be harvest into meaning and logical reasons to be put in good use to the human mind point by point.
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After the Mission system was dismantled by the Mexican government, several prominent Southern Californians attempted to acquire Rancho San Bernardino. In 1837, Antonia Pico and Andres Pico made an application for the land, but it was rejected. Ygnacio Palomares, applied for the right to graze cattle in the eastern San Bernardino Valley. Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado rejected the application. Instead, the governor approved a settlement plan by Don Antonio Maria Lugo. Lugo's proposal was to colonize the San Bernardino area,listing 27 prospective settlers.
ReplyDeleteIn 1839, the Lugo's colonization permit was granted for 18 leagues of land. In the same year, the Lugo Family built an adobe house where the current county courthouse sits today.
The plan for colonization was not successful. In 1841, Don Lugo prepared another petition. This time, it requested a land grant in the name of three of his sons, José del Carmen Lugo, José Maria Lugo, Vicente Lugo, and José del Carmen's friend, Diego Sepulveda.
On June 21, 1842, Rancho San Bernardino was granted to Don Antonio Maria Lugo, his sons and his nephews, who grazed approximately 4000-6000 cattle in the area. The grant included a large part of the San Bernardino valley, 37,700 acres (153 km²) in all. Lugo's adobe would later become Amasa M. Lyman's house. His brother repaired the Estancia and lived there.
In 1843, Michael White (also known in Spanish as Miguel Blanco), a Mexican citizen of English origin, was granted the Muscupiabe Rancho, named after the Serrano village Amuscupiabit, "Place of little pines." Michael White built a house overlooking the Cajon Pass, but Native Americans from the desert stole his grazing stock, and he abandoned the Rancho after nine months.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_San_Bernardino,_California
By, Jarvous Taylor Period 6
ReplyDeleteIn 1810, Don Antonio Lugo, received a grant to a tract of land of some 29,514 acres. He named it
Rancho San Antonio, after his birthplace, El Mission San Antonio de Padua, in 1775.
Don Antonio Maria Lugo was born in Spain. Though unable to read or write, he was a man of great energy, decision and strength of mind. He was a commanding figure, fully six feet in height, spare and sinewy. His face was of the purely Spanish type, clean-shaven, naturally stern of expression. The familiar picture of him, shown below, is distinguished by a bandana worn beneath a sombrero - a headdress affected by gentlemen of Leon.
ReplyDeleteLugo came to California as owner of the San Antonio Rancho - a grant given to him in 1810, while he was serving as a soldier of Spain. He served as Aldalde or Mayor of Los Angeles from 1816 to 1819, juez del campo, or judge of the plains, from 1833-34. This was an important office, and there was no appeal from his decisions. His duties consisted of settling disputes between rancheros relative to the ownership of cattle, etc.
Don Antonio had three sons, and with them he purchased the Rancho San Bernardino from the Mexican Government in 1842. Here he engaged in the life of a cattle rancher until the coming of the Mormons in 1851. Since he bought the Rancho for $800 in hides and tallow, and sold to the Mormons for $77,000, Don Antonio could be classed as one of the first Californians to get rich on real estate.
Shortly after he bought the Rancho, Don Antonio appealed to the governor to assign Father Jose Zalvidea, formerly of San Gabriel Mission, to come and alleviate the suffering of the Indians, struggling in poverty at the abandoned San Bernardino Mission. The contents of his letter, written for him by a scribe, a quoted in full by Beattie in his Heritage of the Valley, and gives interesting insight into Lugo's character. Constantly harassed by hostile Indians, Lugo of course also had in mind that a chapel and resident priest with armed Christianized parishioners, would furnish assistance to his stock raising.
His plea was never answered, and he bought the Mission property, where one of his sons made his home.
After the sale of San Bernardino, the Lugos returned to Los Angeles, where their social life was always centered.
It was in 1810 that the King of Spain rewarded his former cavalry corporal, Don Antonio Maria Lugo, with eleven square league of California. In 1813, Don Antonio Maria Lugo settled on an area that extended from the low range of hills which separated it from the San Gabriel Valley to the Old Dominguez Rancho at its south, and from the eastern boundary of the Pueblo to the San Gabriel River. This was a huge land holding approximately 29,513 acres. The huge ranchos of San Antonio, Chino, San Bernardino and Cucamonga became the properties of Antonio Lugo.
In 1855, Rancho San Antonio was partitioned and sold. San Antonio kept approximately one-seventh of the ranch, 4,239 acres. The old grandee lived on seven acres of his land, the Lugo Ranch, three miles east of Bell. Don Antonio Maria Lugo rode tall in the saddle until he was past ninety years old. He was a familiar sight. Don Antonio died in 1860. The total 4,239 acres were deeded to Vincent Lugo.
In 1862, the Los Angles and the San Gabriel Rivers overflowed. To compound the problem, the years of 1863-64 were years of drought. Like so many large Spanish land owners, Vincent Lugo was forced to relinquish his title to the land.
The oldest remaining house in Los Angeles is the Avila Adobe located on Olvera Street (built 1818). It is not, however, the oldest remaining house in Los Angeles County. Shane Kimbler, a Bell Gardens history enthusiast, wrote to point out that early colonist Francisco Salvador Lugo and son Antonio María Lugo began construction in 1795 on what is now known as Casa de Rancho San Antonio or the Henry Gage Mansion. The house is located at 7000 East Gage Avenue in Bell Gardens. It was built to qualify the younger Lugo, a former Spanish colonial soldier, for a land grant from the Spanish crown. In 1810, Antonio María Lugo completed the house and received the grant, naming his new grant Rancho San Antonio. The ranch eventually grew to encompass 29,513 acres, including what are now the cities of Bell Gardens, Commerce, and parts of Bell, Cudahy, Lynwood, Montebello, South Gate, Vernon and East Los Angeles. When California became part of the U.S. in 1850, Lugo, as did all recipients of Spanish/Mexican land grants, began losing portions of his land to the growing population of Yankee newcomers. The ranch adobe, however, continued to be owned and used by the Lugo family.
Don Antonio María Lugo died at the age of 85 in 1860. According to Dr. Roy Whitehead in his book Lugo, "Don Antonio Maria Lugo…rode around Los Angeles and his Rancho San Antonio in great splendor. He never adopted American dress, culture or language and still spoke only Spanish. He rode magnificent horses, sitting in his $1,500 silver trimmed saddle erect and stately, with his sword strapped to the saddle beneath his left leg…People knew him far and wide, and even the Indians sometimes named their children after him, as he was one Spanish Don that they admired."
By 1865, most of the Lugo ranch, divided among five sons and three daughters, had been sold off for as little as a dollar per acre. The original adobe ranch home, however, remained in the family. In 1880, attorney Henry T. Gage, a transplant from Michigan, married one of Lugo’s great granddaughters, Francis "Fanny" Rains. The original adobe ranch home was gifted to Gage as a wedding dowry and it became known as the Gage Mansion. In 1898, Gage was elected to become Governor of California. He served in that office from 1899 to 1903. In 1910, he was appointed by President William Howard Taft to serve as U.S. Minister to Portugal. He resigned after only one year due to his wife’s health problems. Gage lived in the abode ranch house until his death in 1924.
A century later, the Gage Mansion was all that remained of the once great Rancho San Antonio. In 1983, the Casa Mobile Home Park, a cooperative of mobile home owners renting lots on the property, purchased the land and the house from their ailing landlord. Although they were aware of the historical significance of the old house, they had no means of maintaining it. In 1987, then Bell Gardens City Councilwoman Letha Wiles began working to get the house listed on the state historical registry, making it eligible for maintenance grants. It is now listed as California Historical Site Number 984.
http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/about/history/streets_n_places/lugo_avenue.asp
http://www.cudahy.ca.us/atc/history.asp
http://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi05h.htm
Larisa Khoushabeh, Period 1