Moving - Los Angeles, California

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We've included here a brief history of Los Angeles, CA.

A Brief History of Los Angeles, California

The earliest residents of the Los Angeles area were Gabrieleño and Chumash Indians, who arrived in the desert region between 5000 and 6000 BC. The first European known to have visited the LA basin was Portuguese sailor Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, who cruised the coast in 1542. In 1769, the Spanish governor of California, Don Gaspar de Portola, and Franciscan priest Junípero Serra led an expedition north from San Diego, looking for places to build missions and Christianise California's "heathen" natives. Eventually, 21 California missions were established along El Camino Real (The King's Highway), two of them in what was to become Greater Los Angeles.
In 1781, the missionaries chose 44 settlers from San Gabriel to establish a new town on the banks of a stream about 15km (9mi) southwest of the mission. They named the settlement El Pueblo de Nuestro Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río Porciúncula (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciuncula River). Los Angeles, as the pueblo became known, developed into a thriving farming community