Rancho Los Alamitos
Historic house in California, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rancho Los Alamitos takes its name from an 1834 Mexican partition of the 1784 Rancho Los Nietos, a Spanish concession, covering an area in present-day California's southwestern Los Angeles County and northwestern Orange County. Los Alamitos means the Little Cottonwoods or Poplars in Spanish, after the native Fremont Cottonwood trees there.
Rancho Los Alamitos | |
Location | 6400 Bixby Hill Rd., Long Beach, California |
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Coordinates | 33°46′36″N 118°6′25″W |
Area | 7.4 acres (3.0 ha) |
Built | between 1800 and 1834 |
Architectural style | Spanish Colonial |
Website | www |
NRHP reference No. | 81000153[1] |
Added to NRHP | July 7, 1981 |
Rancho Los Alamitos originally included much of the area of present-day eastern Long Beach, all of Los Alamitos and Rossmoor, and most of Seal Beach, Cypress, Stanton and Garden Grove.[2] It is also sometimes referred to as Bixby Ranch, after its last private owners. The early 19th century adobe ranch house still stands today, housing a museum which presents the history of the area.